Blankets

This is the first graphic novel I have ever read and I have to say when I first picked it up off the shelf I was a little overwhelmed. I never knew graphic novels were so big! Luckily Blankets was a completely captivating experience. It wasn’t just like reading any other book the images and the text are combined into this emotional, dream like tale that I could relate to so easily. While reading I was tossing and turning through the pages and immediately connected with the characters.

The illustrations in this graphic novel did not disappoint me in the slightest. The drawing style, line work, textures, compositions, and the movement and mood of the images were a perfect fit with the text. The various shapes and sizes of the panels seem to flow together so well and yet each turn of the page was a new and exciting layout, just another one of the reasons it was so captivating.

In the Book Craig Thompson tells the story of his life experiences when he was in his young adulthood, the weird stage in life where you are changing and realizing new things about yourself. He uses a lot of flashbacks in the novel to make connections with what is happening in the present, which I think also helps you develop a stronger connection with the character. He falls in love for the first time, goes through many emotional stages of happiness, loneliness, love and confusion, which results in him finding himself.

With the combination of this heart felt story and fascinating magical images Blankets would be easy to fall in love with for anyone and I would surly recommend it. I am completely satisfied in the fact that it was the first graphic novel I have read because now I am tempted to buy the whole bookshelf.