Winner of the Whiting Award in Fiction. The graphic novel of the year in over 100 lists in Europe and the United States
«Emil Ferris is one of the most important graphic novel artists of our era. Art Spiegelman Awarded with 2 Ignatz, 3 Eisner, 1 Guinigi, 1 ACBD Gran Prix, 1 Carlos Giménez, 1 Premio de los Libreros de Madrid, 1 Premio del Cómic Aragonés. Award for Best International Comic at the Barcelona International Comic Convention 2019. A comic that has already become a modern classic. This is the story of Karen Reyes, a peculiar ten-year-old girl who lives in the dark Chicago of the late sixties. She keeps a graphic diary that reflects her passion for B-movie horror films and the iconography of pulp monster magazines. She portrays herself as a wolf-girl dressed as a detective and, as such, one day sets out to solve the mystery surrounding the murder of her beautiful and enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a Holocaust survivor.
As Karen investigates the crime, we see the fascinating and interconnected lives of everyone around her: her brother Deeze, whose enlistment in Vietnam is imminent and who is tormented by a secret from the past; her mother Marvela, an unpredictable woman who has raised a partially dysfunctional family; Sam Silverberg, "the Quick," a jazz drummer recently widowed; Mr. Gronan, the building's landlord and part-time mobster; Sylvia Gronan, his wife and keeper of community secrets; Mr. Chugg, a ventriloquist with strange customs; and Karen's strange and moving catalog of friends, equally real and unreal.
When Karen's investigations branch out to Nazi Germany, it will become clear how the personal and the political, the past and the present, can converge, and how even good can harbor a portion of the monstrous.
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is an unprecedented narrative explosion that has already elevated its author among the great contemporary masters of comics.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Winner of the Whiting Award in Fiction. In this debut, which takes the form of a fictional graphic diary, a 10-year-old girl tries to solve a murder. Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago,
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen's investigation takes us back to Anka's life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge. Full-color illustrations throughout.
Author: Emil FerrisPublisher: Reservoir Books
Published: 02/18/2025
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 3.15lbs
Size: 10.35h x 8.11w x 1.26d
ISBN13: 9788417125639
ISBN10: 8417125639
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:-
Comics & Graphic Novels |
Crime & Mystery-
Comics & Graphic Novels |
Contemporary WomenAbout the Author
Emil Ferris grew up in the turbulent 1960s in Chicago, where she still resides; therefore, she loves all things monstrous and majestic. Her first graphic novel, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters. Book One (Reservoir Books, 2018), won multiple awards, including two Ignatz awards, three Eisner awards, the Lambda Literary Award, the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize, the prestigious Fauve d'Or at the Angoulême Festival, and the award for Best International Comic at the Barcelona International Comic Convention. In her previous life, Emil graduated in Fine Arts from the Art Institute of Chicago and worked as a medical and technical illustrator, as well as a toy designer. After several years of restless waiting, we finally present the conclusion of her magnum opus, one of the publishing events of our time: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters. Book Two (Reservoir Books, 2024).
