My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1 by Emil Ferris

Rendered in a kaleidoscopically and breath takingly virtuosic visual style that combines panel sequences and montage, my favorite thing is monsters is a revelatory work of striking originality and unnerving power. Emil Ferriss runaway smash hit My Favorite Thing Is Monsters has been the graphic novel event of the decade and for this years Free Comic Book Day, Ferris. When karen's investigation takes us back to anka's life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal and the political and the past and the present converge, and how even the good can harbor a touch of the monstrous. 2 takes place is tumultuous and violent Chicago in the summer of 1968. In the conclusion of this two-part graphic novel, set in 1960s Chicago, dark mysteries past and present abound while 10-year-old Karen tries to solve them. Gronan, a Mobster Franklin, a Drag Queen and Mr.Ĭhugg, a ventriloquist. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, 2) Hardcover. Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late 1960s chicago and narrated by 10-year-old karen reyes, monsters is told through a fictional graphic diary employing, the iconography of B-movie horror imagery and pulp mongter magazines.Īs the precocious karen reyes tries to solve the murder of her beautiful and enigmatic upstairs neighbor, anka silver berg, a holocaust survivor, we watch the interconnected and fascinating stories of those around her unfolt : her brother deeze, who is facing the draft and who is tortured by something mysterious in his past Sam 'hotstep' silverberg, a jazz musician Mr. Emil Ferris's debut graphic novel, my favorite thing is monsters is a murder mystery, a family drama, a sweeping historical epic, a psychological thriller about monsters-real and imagined, within and without.

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1 by Emil Ferris