![]() ![]() 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. After twenty years, it continues to sell well in both comic book shops and traditional bookstores. Blankets is a true graphic novel, written as a single book and not serialized in comic books. ![]() The first installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust. Goodreads members who liked Blankets also liked: This One Summer, Fun Home. "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. Find books like Blankets from the world’s largest community of readers. It is included on virtually all lists of the best graphic novels. 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. 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. ![]()
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