![]() Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only. To order a copy for £16.14 (RRP £18.99) go to or call 03. It’s a touching, passionate account of growing up.īlankets is published by Faber. ![]() ![]() While the young artist is at the heart of this fine work, everyone in Blankets has a spark and an inner life, and the fluid panels tease out character with subtlety and generosity. Craig Thompson is a cartoonist and the author of the award-winning books Blankets, Carnet de Voyage, Good-bye Chunky Rice, and Habibi.Thompson was born in Michigan in 1975, and grew up in a rural farming community in central Wisconsin. The dialogue can be clunky, but Thompson has a great eye for the moment, and the pages fly by as Craig meets Raina at church camp, falls in love and questions his faith. It’s a childhood cloaked in snow, in which money is ever tight and Christ ever present, and school is a hostile place. First-time readers expecting an instant showstopper may wind up disappointed: the book unspools gradually over 600 black-and-white pages as young Craig negotiates life, sharing blankets unwillingly with his younger brother and reverently with his girlfriend Raina. But Thompson’s autobiographical tale of family life and young love in the American midwest has never before received an official UK release. Blankets has been garlanded with praise since its publication in 2003, winning an Eisner award and regularly featuring in lists of the best graphic novels of all time. ![]()
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