Blankets by Craig Thompson – C –
Requirements: CBR reader, 200 Mb
Overview: This is a fantastic (not to mention award-winning) graphic novel (more novel-focused than graphic-focused); well worth your time.
“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. 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. But escapist reveries can’t protect them from the cruel schoolmates who make their lives miserable. 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. By high school, Thompson’s a lost, socially battered and confused soul-until he meets Raina and her clique of amiable misfits at a religious camp. Beautiful, open, flexibly spiritual and even popular (something incomprehensible to young Thompson), Raina introduces him to her own less-than-perfect family; to a new teen community and to a broader sense of himself and his future. The two eventually fall in love and the experience ushers Thompson into the beginnings of an adult, independent life. Thompson manages to explore adolescent social yearnings, the power of young love and the complexities of sexual attraction with a rare combination of sincerity, pictorial lyricism and taste. His exceptional b&w drawings balance representational precision with a bold and wonderfully expressive line for pages of ingenious, inventively composed and poignant imagery.”
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More Mirrors:
- http://www.gboxes.com/4j9yzlz2dlwk — Craig Thompson: Blankets 01 (2003)
http://ceesty.com/wKLpvN — Craig Thompson: Blankets 02 (2003)
http://ceesty.com/wKLpv2 — Craig Thompson: Blankets 03 (2003)
http://ceesty.com/wKLpv5 — Craig Thompson: Blankets 01 (2003)
http://ceesty.com/wKLpv8 — Craig Thompson: Blankets 02 (2003)
http://ceesty.com/wKLpbr — Craig Thompson: Blankets 03 (2003)
http://ceesty.com/wKLpbp — Craig Thompson: Blankets 01 (2003)
http://ceesty.com/wKLpbd — Craig Thompson: Blankets 02 (2003)
http://ceesty.com/wKLpbc — Craig Thompson: Blankets 03 (2003)
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