Blankets

blankets is a coming-of-age autobiography, the book tells the story of Thompson's childhood in an Evangelical Christian family, his first love, and his early adulthood. The book was widely acclaimed, with Time magazine ranking it #1 in its 2003 Best Comics list, and #8 in its Best Comics of the Decade. Blankets is a step into the emergence of the graphic novel which is if it isn't clear enough by the name very different from juts your average comic book. 

comic books are written with a balance of words and actions but with a bit more focus on visuals and more simplistic concepts, graphic novels however are a complete step into the world of sequential art. playing around with panel structure and speech bubbles they become far more complicated in both art and story as they take on more of a bite of substance than just Comic books. Blanket takes this on in spades as the panels inside are very expressive of a far more illustrative style not stuck within the confines of panel structure and page limit but allowed to explore it self as an artistic medium.