"Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone."

My "bomb-diggity" artist is Craig Thompson. He is the writer and illustrator of the graphic novel, Blankets, which he is most famous for. I first came across him when I read Blankets back during freshman year and I instantly wanted to be a graphic novelist. I actually still want to...kind of.
Blankets is a 200-page autobiographical graphic novel that took him three and a half years to write making it being released in 2003. Ever since reading it for the first time I have always had this strong pull to draw my own story of my life and having people portrayed the way I want them to.
With comics there is less rules of how to draw figures but as Wy-Fi always says, you have to know the rules and express that you know how to apply the rules in order to break them. I like that about them. When an illustrator draws something it's like they leave you, the reader, to interpret why certain features have been made the way they were and it leaves us making thousands upon thousands of interpretations...that's the way I like to make art.

I would also like to say that until I wrote this blog...I didn't know that Craig and I share the same birthday.