Blankets

Blankets, by Craig Thompson, is certainly now among my favourite graphic novels. It's the most autobiographical one I've read so far, telling the story of a young man torn between his strict Christian upbringing in a small town and the desire to be free to pursue drawing creatively. But it also manages to tell a story of first love, and for that matter work in some personal philosophy and Socrates along the way, blending a current reality with flashbacks, the real world with an imagined one, ...