Blankets

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 ten or twenty graphic novels of all time. Powerful, gorgeous, touching, expressive, it’s among other things a meditation on first or young l Leggi tutto

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 Fall.) [The cutest of meet-cutes.] There are any number of reaso

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 sty Leggi tutto

I just read this in one sitting. Incredible. First graphic novel i've given 5 full stars to.

"As a child, I thought that life was the most horrible world anyone could ever live in, and that there HAD to be something better." Wow! If that isn’t the most heartbreaking thought any child could harbor… And yet, that is exactly what graphic novelist Craig Thompson tells us in this poignant and bea Leggi tutto

Nothing like reading a 580 page book in two and a bit hours to make you think you’ve had a productive day. It probably took Craig Thompson 10 years of hard graft, and after two hours I just snap my fingers & say yeah, loved that – next! Wow, I wish I could steam through non-graphic novels at the sam Leggi tutto