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BLANKETS……..

CREATOR……………..CRAIG THOMPSON

PUBLISHERS…..TOP SHELF COMICS

YEAR RELEASED…..2003

PAGES….600

This is an autobiographical graphic novel by craig…..usually I shudder to think of autobiography but this one engulfs me effortlessly….

This one is about family and love……

Poor and reared by religious fanatic parents craig and his younger brother phil’s childhood days are painfully honest .

Sleeping in the same bed they picturise the bed as a floating boat in the ocean and pillows become sharks and the teddy bears become pirates…

So many childhood memories some agonizing, some full of mediocrity, many laughable are however visually delightful.

Criag meets raina a girl from Michigan  in a Christian winter camp and they become friends.

Later craig visits raina and stays at her house for two weeks and half of the book narrates this stay.

Ben, raina’s adopted brother, with sort of autism and laura, raina’s adopted sister who’s mentally challenged are interesting characters….

Julie raina’s blood related sister who marries dave just to escape from responsibilities is a selfish character.

During this stay love blossoms between craig and raina …..

Most who read this book will empathise craig and thereby lays the success of the creator …

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The art is fluidic……

Winner of 2004 eisner and Harvey awards……

Most comics enthrall us ; many bring excitement; but this one brings tranquility and inner peace.