In one of the chapters we've read so far in Understanding Comics, McCloud discusses how the more generically a person is drawn in comics, the more the reader inserts him or herself into that character's place. Reading Chapters 6-7 of Blankets this weekend, I've discovered that the opposite can also be true: When an image is incredibly specific, it can reverberate especially loudly with the reader who may still be able to identify with it.
What do I mean by this? Well, that blanket that Raina gives Craig which makes its presence known throughout Chapters 6-7... I swear I own it.
p. 182
p. 434, p. 435 (top right panel)
p. 437
p. 435 (snow)
Except that my blanket comes from Target, not from an eccentric and overwhelmed, if underwhelming, pseudo-lover.
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