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My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

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It portrays a young girl named Karen Reyes investigating the death of her neighbor in 1960s Chicago. In this terrible political moment, in which the marginalized are treated as less than human, it’s wonderful to have a story in which queer people and people of color find comfort in themselves and in each other. She’s also cited the fleshy, body-centric art of Francisco Goya and Honore Daumier as early childhood obsessions alongside the boundary pushing horror of EC Comics, which inspired the faux horror magazine covers recreated by Karen throughout the novel and used as chapter breaks. We are permitted to see her true image only once in Book One, when her brother, who has read her sketchbook/diary forces her to look in a mirror and see her true image. What is most striking, especially rereading the book after a long year, is that the book does not despair, but rather offers the only comfort that it can.

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Narratively, it’s unsatisfying, but it leaves the reader desperate for the story to explore the dark corners of life it has begun to expose. The bigotry experienced by Karen, her family, and her friends hasn’t disappeared, and the vernacular and policies of the current administration are fueling prejudice and fear rather than diminishing it. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters’ stands at a point of intersection among many book-identities as well. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. Along the way, she discovers that while some monsters are murderers, other monsters can provide hope in despairing times.My Favorite Things Is Monsters’ is, to stake out an appropriate metaphor, a Frankenstein’s patchwork monster: a beast with a constitution borrowed from various places but transformed into something overwhelmingly, gloriously its own. The first volume itself took many years to finally see the light of day, so we will just have to be patient. Anka’s death provides the catalyst for Karen Reyes’ adventures, but eventually, she must also navigate her own mother’s death, as well as Martin Luther King Jr. From this perspective, the existence of monsters is a coping mechanism, a way for a child to understand the world that is otherwise incomprehensible. As the story opens, Karen Reyes’ neighbor, a troubled and beautiful Polish woman named Anka, has suddenly died.

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is a brilliant, eye-opening My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is a brilliant, eye-opening

This is not just the best comic of the year, but one of the best books of any kind that has been published this year. Ferris drew almost all of “Monsters” with Bic ballpoint pens and used a Paper Mate felt tip Flair pen for text, forgoing the traditional use of page outlines and instead translating images collected in her head from page to page, which is likely the reason why the book’s page count ballooned over time. A 2010 video shows pages from the long-form work that would become My Favorite Thing is Monsters – only the cover and pages are different. The book’s design evokes a spiral bound notebook – a conceit seen often from the bestselling Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney to the charming Spiral Bound (2005) by Aaron Renier, and numerous other examples.With the release of My Favorite Thing is Monsters, from Fantagraphics and just in time for Halloween in 2016 (Update: the book's release is now scheduled for Feb. It shatters its categorization as a “graphic novel,” and becomes literature, pure and simple (although not so pure, not so simple). but eventually, i broke down and lugged the hefty beast home and kept it near the bedcave for whenever i’d be in the mood for a long-ass picture book. To be shunned from a humanity that hates your differences, but to also embody the power that derives from not being subject to the worst of human impulses.

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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 monster magazines.Ferris gained an understanding of World War II by talking to Holocaust survivors who lived in the neighborhood of Rogers Park, which she had moved to. Anka reveals that she was raised in a brothel by a mother who abused her and trafficked her at a young age.

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But above all, the process of creating and analyzing art gives both the character of Karen and the reader the ability to process a dark world and choose a path forward for themselves. It’s filled with small moments of human connection and the times in which we understand one another in innate, spiritual ways. This of course involves spending time — by choice or otherwise — alone, but it also involves finding solace in likeminded people.There’s Anka herself, whose constant deep blue facade gives the impression of a ghost, a wandering spirit of the past whose story gives greater understanding of the worst of humanity. Writing My Favorite Thing Is Monsters acted as a form of therapy for Ferris as she recovered from a severe reaction to the West Nile Virus.

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