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My Favorite Thing is Monsters Kindle & comiXology
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherFantagraphics
- Publication dateFebruary 15, 2017
- Reading age16 years and up
- File size2146747 KB
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From the Publisher
Emil Ferris's My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is one of the most acclaimed graphic novels of the past decade. Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, the book is presented as the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes as she tries to solve the murder of her beloved and enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. Visually, the story is told in Ferris's inimitable style that breathtakingly and seamlessly combines panel-to-panel storytelling and cartoon montages filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster mag iconography.
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"Emil Ferris is one of the most important comics artists of our time." — Art Spiegelman (Maus) |
"A thrilling and surprisingly profound novel ... The book is a fine balance of stunning artwork and terrific writing." — Chicago Tribune |
"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." — Forbes |
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"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." — Mother Jones |
"No one has ever made a comic like Emil Ferris’s assured, superhumanly ambitious two-part debut graphic novel My Favorite Thing Is Monsters.…It threatens not merely to exceed established standards of excellence, but to set new ones." — The Guardian |
"Ferris' work fuses the style and atmosphere of noir godfather Raymond Chandler with the passionate moral intensity found beating beneath a good episode of Tales from the Crypt." — Paste Magazine |
Editorial Reviews
Review
― The A.V. Club
"My Favorite Thing Is Monsters has all of the complexity of the finest literary fiction and breathtaking art. For what more could we ask?"
― The Austin American-Statesman
"My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is not only Ferris’s first graphic novel but also her first published work. ... Yet her mastery of comics, her pyrotechnic drawings, and her nested narratives are already placing her among the greatest practitioners of the form."
― The New Yorker
"Emil Ferris is one of the most important comics artists of our time."
― Art Spiegelman
"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."
― Forbes
"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."
― Vulture
"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."
― Mother Jones
"Ferris' work fuses the style and atmosphere of noir godfather Raymond Chandler with the passionate moral intensity found beating beneath a good episode of Tales from the Crypt."
― Paste
"No one has ever made a comic like Emil Ferris’s assured, superhumanly ambitious two-part debut graphic novel My Favorite Thing Is Monsters. ... It threatens not merely to exceed established standards of excellence, but to set new ones."
― The Guardian
"A thrilling and surprisingly profound novel ... The book is a fine balance of stunning artwork and terrific writing."
― Chicago Tribune
"Each page of the book is a small masterpiece: detailed, passionate, leaking genius. Ferris’s artwork bullies and commands the reader’s 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."
― The Los Angeles Review of Books
"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."
― The New York Times ― Critics’ Pick
"My Favorite Thing Is Monsters feels to me like a once-in-a-generation debut ― a vision so clear and original that it will change the course of cartooning."
― The Seattle Review of Books
"Ferris’ artwork is astonishing, cross-hatching images upon images, creating a tome that feels homespun but looks consummately professional. This is an emotional, dark, visionary talent to watch."
― Omnivoracious
"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."
― Terry Gross, NPR: Fresh Air
"A graphic novel so immersive it feels almost four dimensional... A fantastical, densely cross-hatched world of Nazis and mobsters and neighborhood eccentrics, seen through the curious eyes of a 10-year-old girl."
― Entertainment Weekly
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Product details
- ASIN : B01D5H511C
- Publisher : Fantagraphics; Illustrated edition (February 15, 2017)
- Publication date : February 15, 2017
- Language : English
- File size : 2146747 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Not enabled
- Enhanced typesetting : Not Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Sticky notes : Not Enabled
- Print length : 388 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #172,403 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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Though the book is clearly not intended for young kids, the content adds up to the same mix of occasional nudity or sex, adult themes, troubled characters and similar content you would expect out of a PG-13 coming-of-age movie. The main character explores her initial feelings of romantic/sexual attraction, and her newfound understanding of more adult undertones in her everyday life that may have been missed previously. The story does seem to jump around without smooth transition to some extent, but as a result you get a lot of "meat" in the course of the book, which is quite long and a large format. The abruptness of some of the topic shifts also fits well with the sketchbook/journal nature of the entire piece, which is really incredible. When you read the more negative reviews, focus on the description of the story and the book, not the subjective opinion of the author. I can see how some people would not be as interested in this book as I am (from a subjective point of view), but the art alone is worth the cost of admission. I read a lot of comic books and novels, and this bridges the gap to some extent to create an interesting story that may meander some, but it always seems to lead somewhere I can't wait to be led.
As part one or a three part story, there is no real neat ending (of course), but I am interested to read more and I can't wait for part 2.
The narrator in Ferris’ stunningly illustrated graphic novel, like myself as an adolescent, seeks escape from her feelings of loneliness and alienation by immersing herself in fantasies of thrillingly compelling supernatural beasts. Ferris, writing from the perspective of the narrator, Karen, creates an equally enticing world of fantasy by blending stories and imagery from Karen’s experience as an urban Chicago preteen in the 1960s with depictions of the horror magazines and paintings Karen adores. The book , formatted to resemble a lined notebook sketch pad, brilliantly perpetuates the illusion that the reader is stepping into the imaginary realm of a creative and extremely perceptive young girl. Detailed interpretations of monster magazine covers and famous art works such as Fuseli’s “ The Nightmare” are juxtaposed with gruesome depictions of Karen’s neighbors and playfully doodled sketches of Karen as a trench-coated child werewolf. As Karen explores her interest in art, Ferris’ illustrations reveal a variety of styles—from the neon-lit grotesqueries of Ernst Kirchner and the German Expressionists to the luridly seductive pulp art of popular comics and the grittily unflattering portraits of Robert Crumb. Unlike many graphic novels, Ferris’ work focuses on inner conflicts, the dangerous secrets festering inside neighbors, schoolmates, and family members that threaten to emerge in monstrous form when exposed.
Secrets connect the lives of Karen and the people she knows. During her attempts to unravel the mystery of her murdered neighbor Anka, a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, Karen discovers secrets within her family and within herself. A growing awareness of her own sexuality and the tragic revelation of her mother’s fatal illness lead her to find strength and solace in her imagination. The monsters she loves, draws, and writes about are her salvation.
Ferris’s depiction of Karen’s monster fantasies and homoerotic stirrings while struggling with family tragedies, violence, and prejudice, though at times grim, is nevertheless inspiring, infused with wit, a sense of childhood resilience and untarnished insight. Like the enduring, undying creatures of the night that Karen idolizes, Ferris’ graphic novel (the first in a series) fascinates and enthralls, giving readers a tantalizing bite that leaves us craving more.
Top reviews from other countries
Bom, é isso mesmo. A ilustradora teve um problema gravíssimo de saúde o que lhe custou toda a mobilidade nas mãos. Quando retornou, é isso o que ela conseguiu... antes que tenha pena, é uma verdadeira obra de arte!
Um ambiente meio mafioso, tipo década de 1940... e uma menina monstra, literalmente no cio... hesitei em baixar a amostra, quando cheguei ao final... bom, eu realmente queria mais!
La historia es muy buena, al nivel del apartado artístico.
Una de las mejores novelas gráficas que se hayan escrito jamás.
La edición está a la altura, con unas hojas espectaculares y una encuadernación excelente.
Ogni pagina è meritevole di attenzione sin nei minimi dettagli.
Imperdibile.