Craig Thompson
Blankets
Top Shelf Productions, 2003
I think of comics as a very human and intimate medium—it’s one of the visual mediums we have that one person can create—you know, it’s not movies or television or video games, it’s something much quieter and more personal. When I did Blankets, at the time it seemed like a novelty to do a really big book where absolutely nothing happens—that’s what I would tell people I was working on. And I wanted it to take place in a very small, intimate space, like a bedroom.
Craig Thompson, interviewed in Rain Taxi Review of Books (2018)*
* Quote added after the original publication of this post.