Astisendo Grupo Editorial Blankets Edición 20 Aniversario Comic

Astisendo Grupo Editorial Blankets Edición 20 Aniversario Comic Blue . Celebrate 20 years of Craig Thompson´s Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz Award-winning masterpiece, *Blankets*. This deeply personal graphic novel chronicles Thompson´s coming-of-age in Wisconsin, his escape through art from authoritarianism and abuse, and a first, all-consuming love. Praised by TIME, The New York Times, and more, *Blankets* is a critically acclaimed exploration of love, sin, guilt, and destiny. This special 20th Anniversary Edition features a new cover and a 32-page epilogue with exclusive sketches and insights into the author´s creative process. Blankets: An Award-Winning Graphic NovelEisner Award: Best Artist, Best Graphic NovelHarvey Award: Best Artist, Best Cartoonist, Best Original Graphic AlbumIgnatz Award: Best Artist, Best Graphic NovelAttilio Micheluzzi Award: Grand PrizeACBD Critics´ Award for Comics: Best Comic of 2003TIME Magazine, Library Journal, and YALSA Best Comic of 2003Synopsis:Craig Thompson recounts his childhood and adolescence in Wisconsin. Tired of his father´s authoritarianism and the abuse he experienced at school, Craig finds refuge in drawing, a frivolous pleasure that his educators strive to keep him away from.His guilt reaches its peak when he meets Raina at a parish summer camp and falls madly in love with her. A passion that he will live to the limit.Critical Acclaim:Blankets has received rave reviews from major American publications, from The New York Times Book Review to Publishers Weekly, Time magazine, and Booklist. It is one of the most awarded graphic novels of all time and was the first book to win all three major comic book awards in the United States simultaneously, doing so in two different categories.20th Anniversary Edition:Blankets 20th Anniversary Edition includes a new cover and an epilogue by the author with 32 pages of sketches and illustrations about the book´s creation and the author´s working method.Craig Thompson´s Current Work:Craig Thompson is currently finishing Ginseng Roots, a work that revisits his childhood and the universe of Blankets, which is scheduled for publication next September.Quotes:With a unique narrative pulse and excellent drawing (...), the slow blossoming of this first love story is told with a delicate and painful sincerity that can take your breath away. A beautiful story about love, sin, guilt, and destiny. - Babelia, El PaísLovers of small great stories will be able to enjoy, more than an illustrated autobiography (with a stroke, by the way, delicious and alien to ugliness, and a great mastery of black and white), a reflection on what it means to become an adult, love, family, and religion. - Metrópoli, El MundoAn exceptional work that will remind you what it is to fall in love. Painfully beautiful. - Time Magazine. tradeinn Techinn