My Favorite Thing Is Monsters [Paperback]

Both volumes of Emil Ferriss beloved graphic masterpiece and worldwide sensation, collected in a custom slipcase. Emil Ferris is one of the most important comics artists of our time. In pages made to look like a spiral-bound notebook, Ferris uses the full width of the oversize pages to explore classical paintings in her vibrant colored ballpoints... In the canons of fine art and old comics, she found a common thread: violence and extraordinary bodies. A thrilling and surprisingly profound novel. One of the most profound, ambitious, and accomplished creative works to appear in any medium this decade. The novel tackles race, gender, and what it means to be 'monstrous' in big and small ways. It could not be more relevant to today's climate. No one has ever made a comic like Emil Ferris's assured, superhumanly ambitious two-part graphic novel.& It threatens not merely to exceed established standards of excellence, but to set new ones. An eerie masterpiece of the monsters around and within us. [Ferriss] mastery of comics, her pyrotechnic drawings, and her nested narratives are already placing her among the greatest practitioners of the form.