Reddit mentions of Carnet De Voyage (Travel Journal)

Well Craig Thompson also did Goodbye Chunky Rice, Carnet De Voyage and Habibi. As far as themes and plot go they don't have a lot of similarities (except maybe Chunky Rice) but the art is phenomenal in them and Habibi works with the Quran much like how Blankets spends a lot of time talking about Christianity.

As far as autobiographical comics go though, I'd suggest American Splendour (specifically "Our Cancer Year", "Cleveland" and "The Quitter"), A Contract With God, and Love And Rockets (try "Maggie the Mechanic", its not for everyone though, it has some scifi in this book but that kind of fades away as the series progresses to focus more on the characters and their relationships).

If you want something that experiments with the format of a comic book a lot you might want to look into Asterios Polyp, Cerebus (Jaka's Story and Church and State I & II are the highlights there) and the works of Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan is a good starting point). As I said though, these books, while some of the most brilliant comics there are, are very experimental and as such it helps to have some grounding in comics before you give them a try. I'd actually go so far as to call all three of these even better than Blankets though and I thought Blankets was great.

Mother, Come Home by Paul Hornschemeier is amazing. I teared up for hours.

I'll add another recommendation for Blankets by Craig Thompson. It was life-changing for me. Also Good-bye, Chunky Rice and Carnet De Voyage by him as well.

Much of Neil Gaiman's stuff is really amazing. Once it gets going the Sandman series gets really good.

Alan Moore also has a ton of... 'interesting' stuff. I adore him but some people think he gets far to weird. From Hell is an interesting look at Jack the Ripper. The Promethea series by him literally (and yes, I do mean that in the correct way) knocked me out of my chair at one point. The 'shell' story is proto-typical superheroics, but that's just some trappings to walk you through a long (2 years of monthly issues or so) mixed media rumination on magic, life, sex, gender, imagination, creation, and how they all feed interrelate. Filled to the brim with very interesting ideas and frequently presented in amazingly innovative ways. Nobody else pushes both the form and the content of comics at the same time the way Moore does.

That's a start.. if you gives me/us an idea of what you didn't like as well there might be some more suggestions that pop to mind.

I wish I'd watched/read those in the order you watched/read them. Those mega-trades are cooler than the thinner trades that were available pre-TV show. But it's fun to compare the two. I like thinking about group structure in particular, as different people fill different roles in the comics/TV show.

Habibi's a cool book, but if you didn't read Thompson's Carnet De Voyage you might think it's kind of racist. I think knowing that Thompson had knowledge of the themes/cultures he works with in that book reassures me that he made artistic/narrative decisions from a position of understanding and appreciation.

Maybe you can use Carnet Du Voyage? It's related to Blankets in the sense that it's a travel sketchbook Thompson drew while in France, Spain & Morocco. It provides a glimpse into his life after Blankets, so there's a greater context.

Hope that helps!

lol, comics are just pictures and words. there are plenty of non-fiction comics in the world

by discounting the medium you are making yourself sound ignorant. you should probably buy what i linked you to, it could save your intellect.

also, you didn't address my comment about pitting two (real or perceived) groups against one another.