Blankets #[nn]

Craig Thompson's Blankets arrives in a gorgeous Drawn & Quarterly edition, its cover alone setting a quietly affecting tone: two figures embrace in a snow-covered winter landscape, surrounded by frost-laden evergreens and bare-branched trees receding toward a frozen stream under a muted blue sky. The image is rendered entirely in Thompson's precise, expressive linework — both pencils and inks his own — with that vast expanse of white snow below lending the couple a sense of fragile solitude. At $39.95 USD / $49.95 CAD, this 2015 edition is a genuinely beautiful object that signals the tender, introspective story waiting inside.