March Books 3) Blankets

[nwhyte]

3) Blankets, by Craig Thompson (.co.uk, .com)

One of the top 25 comics as listed by Time magazine. This is a beautifully told coming of age story, featuring first love at long distance, a repressive evangelical Christian background, and the heavy blankets of snow of Wisconsin and Michigan. (I had the first of these, but not really the second and

Comments

[nuttyxander]

Blankets is my favourite biography by some distance, and I grow ever more impatient waiting for him to produce something of similar length. There's a very good interview on the TCJ website which covers some aspects of Blankets in intriguing ways.

And there is also the review I wrote kicking around somewhere...

[slovobooks]

I also liked Blankets very much, and second nuttyxander's opinion about needing more stuff by Craig Thompson, although Goodbye Chunky Rice will help fill those gaps for yourself, Nicholas, if you're looking for something else.