My Favorite Thing Is Monsters [Paperback]

Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late 60s Chicago,Drawn with Bic pen on lined notebook paper, this moody and ravishing graphic novel takes the form of a sketchbook diary. Growing up in Chicago in the 1960s, 10-year-old Karen Reyes investigates the suspicious death of her glamorous neighbor and finds troubling clues lurking close to her own home. & An eerie masterpiece of the monsters around and within us.This extraordinary book has instantly rocketed Ferris into the graphic novel elite alongside Art Spiegelman, Alison Bechdel and Chris Ware. You see, she's produced something rare, a page-turning story whose pages are so brilliantly drawn you don't want to turn them.A thrilling and surprisingly profound novel ... The book is a fine balance of stunning artwork and terrific writing.One of the most profound, ambitious and accomplished creative works to appear in any medium this decade. ... Rarely have words and pictures worked together so seamlessly in service of such a complex narrative.The novel tackles race, gender, and what it means to be 'monstrous' in big and small ways. It could not be more relevant to todays climate.No one has ever made a comic like Emil Ferriss assured, superhumanly ambitious two-part debut graphic novelAn ambitious, emotional, beautifully illustrated exploration of a 10-year-old girls experience growing up late 60s Chicago,An extraordinary literary experience that tackles questions of racial, sexual, cultural, professional, and class identity with aplomb and aesthetic glory. Welcome to the canon, Ms. Ferris.Each page of the book is a small masterpiece: detailed, passionate, leaking genius. Ferriss artwork bullies and commands the readers attention, each page bringing her to the brink of exhaustion because the struggle between art and words is so great, and the whole is so sensorially overwhelming.A graphic novel so immersive it feels almost four dimensional... A fantastical, densely cross-hatched world lcj