My brother introduced me to Blankets when it first came out. He’s a writer on Dexter and I tend to heed his suggestions when it comes to books.
I have to say that I honestly thought you were writing about me and my family. I attended many, many youth group camps and met many, many boys who ventured out to my parents house. I have several adopted siblings who have various special needs.
Needless to say, I was touched by your work. I’m really looking forward to seeing more from you.
Thanks for your talent in both drawing and written words.
PD: Omg, I can belive you were in brazil
so close and so far at the same time, come to Chile sometime, it’s a great turistic place where you probably could create an amazing and bizarre “cuaderno de viaje” hahaha, it’s very weird out here really.
Love looking at your blog. Even stuff I’ve already looked it is still fascinating.
Came across your work in the Dark Horse “Scatterbrained” anthology and had to letcha know how great your cartoony stuff is. Such great movement!
Yippee!
Matt Strawbridge
Jonesboro, Ar
First of all sorry about any English spelling or grammatical error. I’m from Brazil, more specifically Belo Horizonte, city of FIQ. Besides the fact that English is a obstacle to express my thoughts, I’m trying hard to put in words my feelings about your book. Blankets (Retalhos) touched me so deeply as Dostoievsky or Guimarães Rosa (the best Brazilian writer, in my opinion). I don’t know why… Maybe I was susceptible to absolve the text, maybe I was needing something different in graphic novels… The fact is that your book has the most beautiful sequences, textual or graphical, I’ve ever read. While I was reading (in 2 days, or 1 night and 1 morning… I couldn’t stop) I even dreamed with your graphical Thompson and Raina. The feelings are so real and so deeply explored that I have impression that you’re talking directly to me, as if BLANKETS was a mirror, and the story was about the most sincere love that I feel about my little girl. I can’t find words (in English or Portuguese) to describe how important your book is…simply a master piece. All this praise and flattery (sorry, but I wrote as I think you usually write: with my heart in the point of pen) has a motive: I really want to say thank you. Few books changed, and made a new perception of the world around me, so substantial as yours. Every book we read change something inside us, but BLANKETS still echoing inside me. I must say : Thank you Craig Thompson! If every story can be told, we must know how to tell them (and you made it gracefully) Thank you from deep of my heart!
P.S.: I was very anxious about seeing you in FIQ! I keep my RETALHOS (autographed) as a trophy and the 2 minutes conversation in there was awesome.
P.S.2: I waiting and counting the days (besides there is no certain day) for Habibi release! The art is fantastic.
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