Thompson and Eisner (6)

 I have to say I read Eisner's Contract with God and it is very interesting how Eisner lays out his panels since a lot of them are more open and not in an actual panel frame but also like a spot illustration. I find the flow of his story and how simple yet expressionistic his characters are really pushed his story that was more adult in nature since a lot of the events that happened within the comic are harsh and the narrative is a bit exaggerated it still reflex real-life struggles people live in, in those type of environments especially during that time period. I think Eisner has a way of doing things suddenly that gets the reader just reacting like 'what just happened?' like The Super short story it was so sudden of the girl robbing the man and even poisoning his dog I remember vocally reacting and I was in shock. Not saying the man was a good guy but I think that is the nice thing that Eisner did when making these characters that they aren't perfect they are human and they have flaws about but that's what makes them more relatable. So I remember I read Blankets many years ago and I do not remember it too well so it was nice re-reading and reliving the experience the author goes through since it is his autobiography. Similar to Eisner, Thompson has a way of presenting a story that is very emotional but through a simplistic style. Tompson's approach is much simpler but I think it works if not more than Eisner because while it is very simple to style-wise I still felt emotional over the characters and in Tompson's Blankets I felt connected with the character's lives so when in the end he cuts ties with his first love and it had that sudden factor of wanting it to not end there. I wanted the character's arc to resolve but it doesn't but that works out because that's how reality is when we lose our connection with people, we fall in and out of people's lives.