![]() ![]() With a small (5-3/8 by 7 inches) four-color print, SIGNED by Thompson, of an alternate version of the cover image, published by La Comète de Carthage Librairie Galerie. A fine copy in illustrated paper-covered boards with minor bumping to the spine. This correct first edition is rather uncommon. It tells the story of Craig’s coming-of-age and first love in the context of his strict religious upbringing, and later, a departure from his childhood faith. After twenty years, it continues to sell well in both comic book shops and traditional bookstores. Blankets is a 2003 autobiographical graphic novel by Craig Thompson, who created both the text and the illustrations. Blankets is a true graphic novel, written as a single book and not serialized in comic books. "Blankets received eight prizes within the comics industry, including multiple Harvey and Eisner awards in 2004, as well as ranking number one on Time's graphic novel list" (The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel, p. ![]() It is included on virtually all lists of the best graphic novels. The book, an "illustrated novel", is an autobiographical account of a Christian boy who grows up, falls in love, and loses his faith. The often-overlooked first edition, published in a reported 500 copies for sale at comics conventions in July 2003, with a different cover design than the trade edition released to bookstores in late August. Blankets is a semi-autobiographical graphic novel about the ways in which events from our childhood and adolescence stay with us forever, but dont have to. ![]()
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