Larissa's review
Blankets
by Craig Thompson
Larissa's review
Blankets by Craig Thompson
Larissa's review
rating:
My co-worker, an expert in the realm of comics and graphic novels, lent Blankets to me along with Watchmen and I finally got around to reading it. It's a sweet story, well-suited to a lazy-Saturday read in bed, and certainly recommended to anyone for whom the experiences of religious youth expeditions (with their faux bonding, lame gestures at hipness--read: "Contemporary Worship"--and repressed doubt) are distant enough memories to be amusing now. The art was also impressive--varied and imaginative, the panel layouts really helping to move along the narrative in a fluid, yet intimate manner.
It's hard for me to give this a fair review, however, in that I feel so very ill-equipped for absorbing graphic novels. Even when I enjoy them--as I certainly have enjoyed the few I've read--reading 'pictorial' stories is still kind of hard for me to adjust to. I find myself racing through the text and then having to go back and figure out what I skimmed over in the ill...more
It's hard for me to give this a fair review, however, in that I feel so very ill-equipped for absorbing graphic novels. Even when I enjoy them--as I certainly have enjoyed the few I've read--reading 'pictorial' stories is still kind of hard for me to adjust to. I find myself racing through the text and then having to go back and figure out what I skimmed over in the ill...more
