Blankets Chapters 1-2

Blankets reminded me of a real relationship between siblings that would argue over having to share a bed but then be best friends in the next scene. It was a very typical brother to brother relationship in my eyes that Phil was much to old to be playing childish games with Craig, but when it came to making plans and ideas to get what they both wanted, such as the fan on those hot nights, they'd work together.
The drawings in this book are much different than in Fun Home, the second I opened the book I was shocked because the drawings were so loud, and etchy. Whereas in Fun Home they were actual scenes that you could fully make out and put yourself in. There house as a child in Blankets was just very sketched out and tough to get a full true picture of it.
I got very curious around pages 29-31 when the babysitter was taking the boys into a seperate room to tell them a very "funny" joke that she had to tell seperatly. It was never talked about later on in the book but the way that Thompson chose to draw Phil when he came out of the room was as in something had happened to him in that room that was traumatizing for him to brin gup again. I was waiting for some type of explination of what had went on but he just doesn't give you anything.
Also in this book the lines were much harder for me to deciphor what was important and a noticable change compared to what was not. In Fun Home it was easy to show a change in the fathers facial expressions because the drawings were much easier to see and understand, and also Bechdel made lines that would stick out and be noticable to the reader.
One other thing about Phil is that he is always timid, which makes me think that much more that something more must have happened to him as a child. Never mind all of the bullying that he had to go through his entire life, but something more real and unnoticed yet that he will uncover later in the story.