The story focuses on the winter of Craig’s senior year during which he meets a kindred spirit-Raina, who becomes his first love. My closest referent is that it’s a Catcher in the Rye with pictures instead of words, (almost) no swearing, and a focus on faith instead of school.ġ Thompson evokes his own experiences growing up with his brother in a strictly religious, authoritarian home his isolation and ostracism from his schoolmates his uneasy relationship with the religion of his youth, and his eventual abandonment of the Christian faith.
This is a dark, heavy, sad book, despite its numerous passages of warmth and wonder. It also got banned from at least one public library, ostensibly because of the book’s nudity but perhaps really because it wasn’t considered the sort of book that kids should be wrapping their head around on their own. Solidly within this tradition is Craig Thompson’s autobiographical novel Blankets, which propelled him to stardom in the comics world and won him just about every award that a graphic novel can get. This trend started in 1978 with Will Eisner’s A Contract with God and has only continued through the works of such artists as Chris Ware ( Jimmy Corrigan, Rusty Brown ), Kristen Radtke ( Imagine Wanting Only This, Seek You ), and Alison Bechdel ( Fun Home). Once a genre devoted to bombastic action and over-the-top unbelievability, comics-um, excuse me, graphic novels -have now pivoted to being the ideal platform for tales of personal reflection, loneliness, and isolation.
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