Brave New Worlds

Join Brave New Worlds Willow Grove Book Discussion on Saturday, May 29 @ 7 p.m. as we argue the merits of Craig S. Thompson’s Eisner and Harvey Award Winner Blankets!

What “They” Are Saying About Blankets

Has set new bars for the medium not just in length, but breadth – Time Magazine

I thought it was moving, tender, beautifully drawn, painfully honest, and probably the most important graphic novel since Jimmy Corrigan. - Neil Gaiman

A superb example of the art of cartooning: the blending of word and picture to achieve an effect that neither is capable of without the other – The Bloomsbury Review

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. – Publishers Weekly

And the Award Goes to

▪ 2004 Harvey Awards Best Artist, Best Graphic Album of Original Work and Best Cartoonist

▪ 2004 Eisner Awards Best Graphic Album and Best Writer/Artist

▪ 2004 Ignatz Awards Outstanding Artist and Outstanding Graphic Novel or Collection

▪ 2005 Prix de la critique

What It’s About Thompson’s autobiographical tale is wrapped in the landscape of a blustery Wisconsin winter, Blankets explores the sibling rivalry of two brothers growing up in the isolated country, and the budding romance of two coming-of-age lovers. A tale of security and discovery, of playfulness and tragedy, of a fall from grace and the origins of faith.