![]() ![]() ![]() He becomes obsessed with purity, with sanctity, to the point where the promise of eternal happiness and threat of eternal pain becomes an albatross around his neck. Craig is raised in a conservative Christian household, and the concepts of heaven and hell root themselves deeply in his mind. The overriding theme of the novel is not subtle: religion versus humanity. It is the cathartic agony that only art can provide. Thompson’s work is a fishhook in the soul, dredging up the wonder and the weariness of first love that some of us have all but forgotten. The cravings of childhood, and the craving to return to it. Blankets is all about…not feelings, but feeling. The minimalistic story cannot be “spoiled,” because it honestly does not matter. I don’t feel much hesitation in laying out the entire plot of Blankets: Craig meets a girl. The book is a brick, weighing in at nearly six hundred pages of heavy paper-despite that, Thompson’s elegantly simplistic storytelling and flowing illustrations make this an ideal single-sitting read. Craig Thompson’s semi-autobiographical work Blankets is something of a contemporary classic in the realm of graphic novels unfortunately, “the realm of graphic novels” has yet to be truly accepted into the realm of “real literature” (although progress is certainly being made). ![]()
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