Thompson's grimly pious parents and religious community dismiss his budding talent for drawing they view his creative efforts as sinful and relentlessly hector the boys about scripture. But escapist reveries can't protect them from the cruel schoolmates who make their lives miserable. Skinny, naive and spiritually vulnerable, Thompson and his younger brother manage to survive their parents' overbearing discipline (the brothers are sometimes forced to sleep in "the cubby-hole," a forbidding and claustrophobic storage chamber) through flights of childhood fancy and a mutual love of drawing. Revisiting the themes of deep friendship and separation Thompson surveyed in Goodbye Chunky Rice, his acclaimed and touching debut, this sensitive memoir recreates the confusion, emotional pain and isolation of the author's rigidly fundamentalist Christian upbringing, along with the trepidation of growing into maturity.
His graphic novel Blankets won numerous industry awards and has been published in nearly twenty languages around the world. Thompson was born in Michigan in 1975, and grew up in a rural farming community in central Wisconsin. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Ĭraig Thompson is a cartoonist and the author of the award-winning books Blankets, Carnet de Voyage, Good-bye Chunky Rice, and Habibi. Beautifully rendered in pen and ink, Thompson has created a love story that lasts. This groundbreaking graphic novel, winner of two Eisner and three Harvey Awards, is an eloquent portrait of adolescent yearning first love (and first heartache) faith in crisis and the process of moving beyond all of that. It's a universal story, and Thompson's vibrant brushstrokes and unique page designs make the familiar heartbreaking all over again. Over time though, their personal demons resurface and their relationship falls apart. Under an engulfing blanket of snow, Craig and Raina fall in love at winter church camp, revealing to one another their struggles with faith and their dreams of escape. Craig Thompson's poignant graphic memoir plays out against the backdrop of a Midwestern winterscape: finely-hewn linework draws together a portrait of small town life, a rigorously fundamentalist Christian childhood, and a lonely, emotionally mixed-up adolescence. " -The Guardianīlankets is the story of a young man coming of age and finding the confidence to express his creative voice.
"Quaint, meditative and sometimes dreamy, blankets will take you straight back to your first kiss.
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