![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story, told in a series of flash-forwards and flash-backs, is about the two of them as they struggle to survive - as they get separated and reconnect. Zam is a small boy whose own mother was also in chains, and Dodola rescues him and raises him herself. Dodola is a girl who was married off at a young age, before being kidnapped and sold into slavery. Set in an unnamed country in the Middle East, the book centers around Dodola and Zam, two child slaves who escape their bonds and flee into the desert. And the story is just as huge as the book. ![]() His newest book, Habibi, is even longer, nearly 700 pages, and it's mind-boggling just to think of the act of drawing this many pages, let alone crafting a story of this magnitude. The story in Blankets was about growing up: stuck sharing a bed with his brother, falling in love, getting (and then losing) religion. At the time, it was the longest graphic novel I'd ever read, and is still probably in the top five. You may remember Blankets, a semi-autobiographical book published in 2003 to great acclaim, which weighed in at nearly 600 pages. Craig Thompson is a masterful comic book artist with the ability to fill pages with life: the amount of detail he includes in some of his drawings is incredible and astounding, as is the sheer scope of the work. ![]()
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