This is the sort of story I aspire to producing myself.īlankets is the story of Thompson growing up in a middle working class family with deep religious underpinnings. Combined with a deeply personal and engaging storyline, Blankets truly glows. Expressive line work, gestural figure work, emotive characters these are the tools of the superior storyteller. What looks basic is often incredibly complicated in construction and form, it takes a master to pare a drawing back to its essentials. As I have found, seemingly simple art styles usually have a solid foundation of drawing ability. In addition to re-reading the book critically, I will be copying his art style with the intention of picking up a few of Thompson’s ‘tricks’. I have chosen to review Blankets in the hopes of gaining a greater understanding of how the text works so effectively. Thompson proves with Blankets the incredible power of the sequential art narrative medium when wielded by a highly skilled practitioner of the craft. Blankets was given to me by my amazing principal supervisor to read around a year ago, and I think I must have finished it in the course of an evening (reading very late into the night!) Thompson tells his story with such conviction and sincerity that I found myself experiencing through shared memory the emotions of his character. My haptic sense was daunted upon first discovering it, the contents of it’s smooth pages as yet unstriated by my eyes. At 582 pages, Craig Thompson’s graphic novel Blankets is a weighty beast of a graphic novel.
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