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	CineGeek
		I was really impressed by Craig Thompson’s first graphic novel “Good-Bye Chunky Rice” which told the beautiful yet simple story of a small turtle and his quest of self-discovery.
		“Blankets” is a monumental achievement for graphic novels.
		If you were new to graphic novels, this would be a perfect introduction to this avenue of storytelling.
	www.cinegeek.com /Book_reviews/blankets.htm (536 words)

	Comic Book Galaxy - Pushing Comix Forward Since 2000.
		It's not at all unusual for a novel to run 600 pages, except in the world of graphic novels, where such an achievement is rare.
		Graphic novels allow a great economy of story by allowing the creator or creators to depict theme and events in both words and pictures, and readers are somewhat accustomed to shorter works.
		The graphic novel paints a convincing portrait of a life with all its minor victories and crushing defeats, and although it has a sweetness to it, Thompson gives it enough narrative strength to mostly avoid superficiality and cliche.
	www.comicbookgalaxy.com /blankets_review.html (968 words)

	Blankets
		Blanket - A blanket is a type of bedding, generally a large, rectangular piece of cloth, intended to keep the user warm, especially while they sleep.
		Blankets are distinguished from sheets by their thickness and purpose; the thickest sheet is still thinner than the lightest blanket, because blankets are for warmth, while sheets are for hygiene, comfort and aesthetics.
		Blankets are distinguished from sheets by their thickness and purpose; the thickest sheet is still thinner than...
	blanket.vvvvvv3.com (651 words)

	Blankets - Craig Thompson - Graphic novel review
		The art of Blankets is distinctly Thompson, with a strong sense of his previous work, Goodbye, Chunky Rice, in each panel, although the style is significantly more realistic than in his previous work.
		There are moments of surrealist expression and fantastical dreams that crop up throughout the novel in which the fluid fl and white art suddenly transforms so drastically that, for a moment, the reader feels as though they have turned the page into another book entirely.
		Blankets is, in every essence, a masterwork, and its heartfelt story of memories is one that you cannot miss and will never forget.
	www.grovel.org.uk /reviews/blankets-01/blankets-01.htm (571 words)

	iComics.com
		Blankets is a huge step forward for Thompson's writing, showing a tremendous level of maturity for such a young creator.
		A great graphic novel needs to have writing and art that works well together, and that's just what we have in Blankets.
		Blankets is scheduled for a July 2003 release; it's in the current Previews on page 368, and is Diamond order code MAY03 2485.
	www.icomics.com /rev_042403_blankets.shtml (725 words)

	foldedspace.org: Graphic Novels for People Who Hate Comics
		This true-crime graphic novel tells of his other big case, the one that ruined him: a series of gruesome killings.
		The graphic novel on which it is based is a little different, emphasizing the relationship between the two young women, and spending less time on secondary characters.
		Comics and graphic novels are often marginalized by the well-read, and that's too bad.
	www.foldedspace.org /weblog/2006/05/graphic_novels_for_people_who.html (4307 words)

	Stone Cold Pimpin': Blankets - Craig Thompson
		Blankets is a huge tome of a graphic novel, one that took artist/writer Craig Thompson 5 years to complete, and only took me a few hours to finish.
		She lives in Michigan, he lives in Wisconsin, and they soon consummate a long-distance relationship that leads to the central action of the novel, Craig's decision to stay with her for a week at her family's house.
		The anti-art/anti-creativity propaganda drilled into the children through the church, as seen in Blankets, is, well, it's child abuse, not to mention the whole body-shame-guilt crap.
	www.tedmills.com /2005/05/blankets_craig_thompson.html (581 words)

	Moped Riders Association :: View topic - Article mentions Moped Army Graphic novel
		Graphic novelist Hector Trujillo of Jackson said the story he wants to tell can't be contained in a single volume.
		Graphic novels are also a way to focus them on different cultures.
		Plus, he said, graphic novels have a longer shelf-life than regular weekly, bi-weekly or monthly comics, which disappear as soon as the new issue arrives.
	www.mopedriders.org /viewtopic.php?t=3239 (1198 words)

	fos \| craig thompson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Craig Thompson's graphic novel is called "Blankets" and it's 600 pages of ink devoted to love in all forms.
		As I was reading "Blankets" I found myself thinking that it's a story that couldn't be told in any other medium and carry the same impact.
		Just recently, when "Blankets" was first printed up, they told me that one of the things they felt had "tempted me away from Christianity" was my brain.
	www.fearofspeed.net /blankets.html (3927 words)

	Amazon.com: Blankets: An Illustrated Novel: Books: Craig Thompson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		BLANKETS is the story of an artist in a state of becoming, a boy walking down a road where people in the houses on either side are attempting to get him to stop and play in their yard.
		'Blankets,' at its core is a simple, timeless story (coming of age, first-love, alienation, anxiety, pursuit of spiritual identity, teen-angst) told thousands of times over the millenia (books, poems, songs, movies, television) but perfectly captured, perhaps for the first time, in comic-strip form.
		Craig Thompson's Blankets is a big, hefty, slab of a graphic novel -- the kind of book that requires you to develop strategies for holding it up when you're reading in bed or draping yourself over the edge of the couch.
	www.amazon.com /Blankets-Illustrated-Novel-Craig-Thompson/dp/0613925955 (2777 words)

	Richie's Picks
		Or perhaps I should say that after reading BLANKETS I understand that the reason I have been a reader unmoved by graphic novels is that they have consistently failed to touch me in the manner that Craig Thompson's 600-page illustrated novel has--page after page after page.
		But, most significantly, what Craig Thompson does to perfection in BLANKETS is to utilize this illustrated format in order to be able to reveal far more with his combination of words and images than he could possibly have done with words alone.
		BLANKETS is a book that leaves me with warm, cozy memories; one you absolutely need to see (and crawl inside of) yourself.
	richiespicks.com /users/stories/picks/blankets.html (526 words)

	FILMguerrero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Askew wrote and produced the album to accompany the graphic novel Blankets by Craig Thompson.
		In an era where invention, concept, and the visual seem to be rapidly dissolving in modern recordings, Blankets: Recordings for the Illustrated Novel satisfies one's need to again experience story and image meeting with music.
		With Thompson's graphic novel already considered a timeless, illustrated masterpiece, Tracker's soundtrack will dutifully rest by the side of Thompson's epic as a beautiful and moving recorded classic.
	filmg.com /tracker.php (311 words)

	The Modern Word - "Blankets" Review
		It is a testimony to Thompson’s skill as a storyteller that when Craig walks into Raina’s room for the first time, the reader feels a bit disoriented – her walls are covered from floor to ceiling with posters of Kurt Cobain and Nirvana, of early Björk and PJ Harvey.
		Blankets is an attempt to rejuvenate such well-trod themes as social isolation, religious guilt, and first love; the vitality of which has become too frequently obscured by countless hackneyed dramas and endless clichés.
		Toward the very end of this “illustrated novel,” Craig notes, while walking in snow, how “satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface.” In Blankets, Thompson does just this: through daring leaps of visual storytelling, he makes wonderfully fresh marks upon a surface long worn blank.
	www.themodernword.com /reviews/blankets.html (631 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Blankets: Books: Craig Ringwalt Thompson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This is one of two graphic novels that have intensely gripped me and opened up to me a whole new literary world.
		Blankets is powerful, considered and tantalizing in its delivery, but it is also one of the saddest things I have ever read.
		This graphic novel is a pure delight, its beautifully written, the drawings are simple, goeorgous and efficient.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Blankets-Craig-Ringwalt-Thompson/dp/1891830430 (1322 words)

	The course attracts a diverse group of students
		A graphic novel is a self-contained narrative that depicts the vision usually of a single author and illustrator and is presented by combining words with sequential art.
		The term ‘graphic novel’ can be somewhat misleading, though, for describing both the width and depth of the genre, Baker said.
		Although graphic novels use a different repertoire of tools for telling a story, they employ many of the same narrative strategies — such as foreshadowing, flashbacks, themes and motifs — as literary prose, in addition to sharing techniques with film and painting.
	www.tntech.edu /publicaffairs/rel/2006/dec06/graphicnovel.html (734 words)

	Review - Book: Blankets
		Blankets of snow, blankets of comfort, blankets of warmth, blankets to snuggle with, blankets to hide under.
		Craig Thompson's wonderful graphic novel, as beautifully drawn as it is written, is one for the ages.
		Tragic, comic and dramatic, Blankets delivers its power from seemingly subtle passages, small nuances and snippets that resurface throughout the story loop.
	www.cosmik.com /aa-january05/ev/ev-blankets.html (107 words)

	Blankets \| The Onion - America's Finest News Source
		Looking at Thompson's follow-up, the massive, staggeringly ambitious graphic novel Blankets, it's easy to see where all the intervening time went.
		In a vast sea of isolation (evoked both by the bitter, snowy Wisconsin winters and by the distancing crowds of crude childhood bullies and cruder teenage outcasts), two people tailor their own private world and find some peace there.
		Blankets lacks Good-bye, Chunky Rice's surrealistic whimsy, and it's duly missed.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/21040 (412 words)

	Powell's Books - Blankets: An Illustrated Novel by Craig Thompson
		"Blankets is one of the most ambitious original graphic novels ever produced in the medium....More importantly, though, [it] is a poignant document of lessons in discovery and self-realization both universal and enlightening."
		"Blankets doesn't push the medium's potential forward the way Maus did....What it does do is set a new standard for longform autobiographical comics work, proving that a graphic novel can be both long and intimate, sprawling and intensely personal.
		His first graphic novel, Good-Bye, Chunky Rice, won the 1999 Harvey Award for Best New Talent along with nominations for Eisner, Ignatz, Firecracker, and Eagle awards.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-1891830430-0 (1220 words)

	code0range's blog \| code0range.net
		The official selection for the Book of the Month is the Original Graphic Novel Blankets by Craig Thompson.
		BLANKETS — the most anticipated graphic novel of the year — is already being regarded as THE defining moment of this comix generation.
		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.
	www.code0range.net /blog/1 (325 words)

	Graphic Novel Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This ultimate guide to collecting graphic novel definition and using graphic novels in a school library is written by an elementary librarian who uses graphic novels in her library media center for instruction graphic novel definition and to advance pleasure reading.
		Graphic novel - A graphic novel (GN) is a long-form work in the comics form, usually with lengthy and complex storylines, and often aimed at mature audiences.
		Sapphire Graphic Card - Sapphire Graphic Card Graphic novel - A graphic novel (GN) is a long-form work in the comics form, usually with lengthy and complex storylines, and often aimed at mature audiences.
	du58.360mkt.info /graphicnoveldefinition.html (1255 words)

	The Rant: Blankets by Craig Thompson
		Craig Thompson’s new book, BLANKETS, published by Top Shelf Productions (bless ‘em) is a mammoth undertaking, a near-600 page graphic novel about first love (and its loss), faith (and its loss), growing up (and away) from both nature and nurture, finding oneself and figuring out one’s place in the universe.
		BLANKETS is a far more realistic (but impressionistic), semi autobiographical tale.
		BLANKETS has already received much praise, often compared to the works of Chris Ware, which I think does Thompson a disservice.
	www.toughguygoods.com /rant_blankets.html (501 words)

	Pacetown - All a part of life's rich pageant
		8:09 AM Given that Tracker's latest work "Blankets" is in both theory and execution a soundtrack to Craig Thompson's 600 page graphic novel of the same name, we should probably start with the book.
		A soundtrack for a novel has no such advantages, since everyone reads at a different pace, so it must capture and condense the mood of the inspiring work in order to create a more evocative experience.
		Overall, Tracker's Blankets is very nearly worthy to the book and will almost certainly be enjoyed by anyone who liked the work that inspired it.
	www.spacetownusa.com /2004/10/music-review-tracker-blankets.html (520 words)

	Amazon.com: Blankets: Books: Craig Thompson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This is a big graphic novel, in concept and successful execution.
		Visually, the fl and white artwork is a stunner but perhaps the most noteworthy aspect of all is Thompson's gift for prose with not a wasted word to be found in his minimalistic narrative that still manages to be filled with layer after layer of subtext.
		Craig moves out of his parents' house at age 20, and in a revelation the entire perspective of the novel tells you is coming but is hard to imagine the particulars of, Craig falls away from the force that has captivated him his entire life: organized Christianity.
	www.amazon.com /Blankets-Craig-Thompson/dp/1891830430 (2661 words)

	A Brooklyn Life: Subway Reads: The Art of Censorship
		However, when one of my favorite books is pulled from the shelves of a local library because one patron felt the content was "inappropriate" for young adults (the section in which it was shelved) well, I guess I feel the need to cast the net wider.
		The book in question is the graphic novel Blankets by Craig Thompson -- a careful, thoughtful exploration of the author's childhood within the evangelical community.
		Their illustrations are the best that I have ever seen in the graphic novel world.
	www.abrooklynlife.com /2006/10/subway_reads_th.html (611 words)

	Gale - Articles - 2006 - 03 - Elevating the Graphic Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The superhero stories long popular among teenage boys remain a large part of the graphic novel publishing industry, and by far the hottest selling titles of the 2000s have been Japanese manga, bound collections of Japanese comic book series that have become all the rage among young adults, especially teenage girls.
		In truth, there were and are an increasing number of graphic novels that are not written for nor are they likely to appeal to the “typical” graphic novel audience.
		These graphic novels, aimed at a more sophisticated adult audience, reveal a form that is coming of age quite nicely.
	www.gale.com /articles/2006/03/graphic_novel.htm (1067 words)

	TheFourthRail.com
		It's too early to praise it as the best graphic novel of the year, but it's definitely going to be in the running, and certainly should be on every comic-book reader's "must read" list for 2003.
		Thompson's story also covers such rich ground as faith and religion, family and growing up, not to mention an unflinchingly honest examination of a molestation incident that took place in his past and, rather than becoming a defining element of the story, is used to reinforce some of these other themes.
		The snow, the patterns on the blanket or clothes, the posters on the wall or furniture in the rooms, all of it is detailed enough to bring the reader right to that place physically, just as the story brings the reader to it emotionally.
	www.thefourthrail.com /reviews/snapjudgments/080403/blankets.shtml (733 words)

	as_if_authors: The Graphic Novel Censorship Storm
		I've had a lot of interesting conversations lately with librarians who are catching some heat for stocking graphic novels, some of which deal with sexually-themed material.
		I think there are two reasons why graphic novels are controversial: (1) they are comics, which, even today, some people mistakenly think are only for kids and can't ever be serious or "legitimate" literature, (2) they are occasionally sexually graphic--scenes that are even easier to find in a comic book than in a novel.
		One form of graphic novel is Manga, or anime, a highly stylized form from Japan.
	community.livejournal.com /as_if_authors/19282.html (312 words)

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