One quick note i want to add that i forgot to mention in my excitement over how incredible this book is. Published by fantagraphics books, it is a beautifully drawn and intricately designed story of growing up in chicago in the late 1960s, confronting the adult world, coming face to face with prejudice and injustice. These days, almost every new movie, tv show, album or book feels so. A young girl investigates the murder of a holocaust survivor who lived upstairs from her. Creatures invade 1960s chicago in my favorite thing is monsters. Karen reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic.
My favorite thing is monsters is a graphic novel set in chicago in 1968. Imagining herself as a budding wolfman detective drawn complete with fur, fangs, fedora, and trench coat, karen is determined to solve the murder of her upstairs neighbor and. The crosshatching so perfect in displaying emotion. Karen loves monsters, comic books, and her tattooed, artloving big. Set in the same 1960s chicago where ferris spent her youth, the books main character is. Thats what happened with my favorite thing is monsters, a new graphic. My favorite thing is monsters is the debut graphic novel of emil ferris. Narrated by 10year old karen reyes in the form of a hyperarticulate graphic diary employing the iconography of b movie horror imagery and pulp monster magazines, my favorite thing is monsters is. Chicago artist emil ferris grabbed the attention of literary and art circles with her debut graphic novel my favorite thing is monsters.
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