Blankets

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Wrapped in the landscape of a blustery Wisconsin winter, Blankets explores the sibling rivalry of two brothers growing up in the isolated country, and the budding romance of two coming of age lovers A tale of security and discovery, of playfulness and tragedy, of a fall from grace and the origins of faith. Best Read [ Blankets ] author [ Craig Thompson ] – kino-fada.fr Craig Thompson, for all the lack of works in his bibliography, is one of the best creators working in comics today Apart from Blankets, he has only released one other major work of fiction His third,Habibi , will be released this FallThe cutest of meet cutes There are any number of reasons that Thompson s work should be lauded His art is gorgeous and his brushline expressive He treats personal topics with a sense of both whimsy and honesty He writes true experiences, even when they Craig Thompson, for all the lack of works in his bibliography, is one of the best creators working in comics today Apart from Blankets, he has only released one other major work of fiction His third,Habibi , will be released this FallThe cutest of meet cutes There are any number of reasons that Thompson s work should be lauded His art is gorgeous and his brushline expressive He treats personal topics with a sense of both whimsy and honesty He writes true experiences, even when they re fictional And as great as all those things are, there is one idea that stands out in his work that I ve yet to see another creator tackle let alone master as Thompson has done.His sense of the sacred and his ability to convey it in ink is breathtaking He offers his readers these holy moments, these frozen, fluid, organic tre...Rating 3.5 5 starsHere are seven lines from Blankets that pretty much sums up the story 1 I couldn t fathom that the soul trapped in my child body would be transplanted to its grotesque adolescent counterpart.2 But in that little pathetic clump of blankets there was comfort.3 We both knew that nothing existed for us outside of the moment.4 Maybe I m sad about wanting yo...Every year I teach this book in my YA course it comes up as one of the top three favorite texts in the course I might go so far as to say it is one of the top five or ten graphic novels of all time Powerful, gorgeous, touching, expressive, it s among other things a meditation on first or young love, with sweeping and or anguished art accomplished in the romantic tradition, with all the emotional highs and lows of young love Thompson s story might be described as autobiographical fiction set Every year I teach this book in my YA course it comes up as one of the top three favorite texts in the course I might go so far as to say it is one of the top five or ten graphic novels of all time Powerful, gorgeous, touching, expressive, it s among other things a meditation on ...I just read this in one sitting Incredible First graphic novel i ve given 5 full stars to.Having produced this illustrated autobiography of his formative years, Thompson certainly deserves credit for an ambitious undertaking His illustrations are the shining accomplishment of this book cartoony, yet humanly realistic, they exude a youthful enthusiasm Definitely a memorable drawing style, it almost makes Blankets worth a read in and of itself Though well intentioned, I felt that the plot of Blankets fell short of what it promised The bulk of the story revolves around the author Having produced this illustrated autobiography of his formative years, Thompson certainly deserves credit for an ambitious undertaking His illustrations are the shining accomplishment of this book cartoony, yet humanly realistic, they exude a youthful enthusiasm Definitely a memorable drawing style, it almost makes Blankets worth a read in and of itself Though well intentioned, I felt that the plot of Blankets fell short of what it promised The bulk of the story revolves around the author s hokey two week long love affair with a girl he met at church camp Though his first encounter with love may have been earth shaking for the author, he fails to c...Find all of my reviews at jerkoff party of 1 I m here I m here While a 3 Star rating is most definitely a perfectly fine rating in this case I am one of a handful amongst my friends who dared to not give 4 or 5 Allow me a moment to splain myself If I were judging solely on the artwork I would break the GR rating system and allot Blankets 10 I mean seriously it begins right at the coverTr s belle And for those of you who have developed Find all of my reviews at jerkoff party of 1 I m here I m here While a 3 Star rating is most definitely a perfectly fine rating in this case I am one of a handful amongst my friends who dared to not give 4 or 5 Allow me a moment to splain myself If I were judging solely on the artwork I would break the GR rating system and allot Blankets 10 I mean seriously it begins right at the coverTr s belle And for those of you who have developed a love for the grown up coloring book You could defile the crap out of Mr Thompson s creation The reason my rating is low is because I just didn t get it I mean, I got it Farts This isn t going well Okay, so Blankets was not difficult to understand It was a coming of age story about a boy and went from his early childhood and superbadawful things sad face to his ber religious adolescence and eventually finding a bit of who he wanted to be in early adulthood The part I don t get is why an autobiography Maybe it s just because I had never heard of Craig Thompson before be ...It s beautiful A quilt made of memories, bad and good, side by side sketches about growing up in a small town in Wisconsin about sharing a room with a younger brother about surviving school days with merciless bullying about finding solace in religion about a boy who meets a girl about disfunctional families and people with disabilities about being an artist and about the power of imagination, about the purity of first love reflected in the purity of snow about losing your religion and It s beautiful A quilt made of memories, bad and good, side by side sketches about growing up in a small town in Wisconsin about sharing a room with a younger brother about surviving school days with merciless bullying about finding solace in religion about a boy who meets a girl about disfunctional families and...NON RIUSCIVO A CAPIRE come l anima racchiusa nel mio corpo da bambino potesse essere trapiantata nella sua grottesca controparte adolescenteBello Molto bello Molto molto.Tenero, struggente, divertente, romantico, profondo, acuto, geniale L educazione sentimentale di Craig andrebbe letta p...book 12 for Jugs Capes review 8 for CCLaP I joke about this a lot, but it s true that in some ways, in the squishiest little corner of my mushy little heart, I am still a teenage girl My favorite TV show, ever and still, is My So Called Life I have read Margaret Atwood sCat s Eyeprobably thirty times I still listen to Fall Out Boy, for fuck s sake I listen to other music too, obviously, hipster fabulous bands you ve never heard...

Blankets
  • English
  • 01 May 2018
  • Paperback
  • 592 pages
  • 1891830430
  • Craig Thompson
  • Blankets