Blankets by craig thompson5/30/2023 ![]() In Part V, Raina asks Craig to sleep next to her in her bed. ![]() These varying constructions convey just as much meaning in Blankets as the visuals and text, and it is on some of these panels that I want to focus. Others have panels where words or images break the border. One such way that this occurs is through Thompson’s configuration of panels. Throughout Blankets, Thompson changes, ever so slightly at times and more pronounced at others the aesthetic of the text. Today, I want to look at a couple of these devices, namely the borders and shape of panels and the deconstruction of some of those panels. ![]() Stevens points out that the visual “devices themselves become objects of attention” in Blankets. Early in his essay, Stevens discusses Thompson’s use of panels, the absence, in spots, of borders, and other aspects that draw attention to Blankets as a graphic memoir working within the language of the genre. In “ The Beautiful Ambiguity of Blankets: Comics Representation and Religious Art,” Benjamin Stevens writes about the religious symbolism and metanarrative aspects of Craig Thompson’s Blankets. ![]()
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