My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

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Karen Reyes is a little girl that is trying to figure out what happened to her neighbor. She was a holocaust survivor that was killed. El mal y lo monstruoso está presente en todo el álbum, en muy diversas formas, pero también el amor y la ternura que representa Karen y su núcleo familiar. También sus amigos, todos inolvidables y una gama variada de personajes, ninguno de los cuales deja indiferente. Las mil formas de ser humano... Fantoni, Lorenzo (April 18, 2018). "La mia cosa preferita sono i mostri, un fumetto tra cultura pop e dramma storico". Wired (in Italian) . Retrieved May 7, 2018. Karen sees herself as a monster, as a tiny werewolf with an underbite. The other kids at school make fun of her and the only people she likes and feels comfortable around are her brother, her mother and the enigmatic neighbor Anka. But during her investigation, Karen will get an unexpected glimpse into the world of adults and find out many things about her family and about Anka. Cavna, Michael (April 2, 2018). "Hugo Award nomination bodes well for breakout 'Monsters' author Emil Ferris". Washington Post. Archived from the original on April 27, 2018 . Retrieved April 17, 2018.

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1 - Goodreads My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1 - Goodreads

Ferris, Emil (November 3, 2016). "You Can Be in My Graphic Novel!". GoFundMe . Retrieved January 4, 2018. Sava, Oliver; Rosberg, Caitlin; Hennum, Shea (December 5, 2017). "The best comics of 2017". The A.V. Club . Retrieved January 5, 2018. Grunenwald, Joe (July 24, 2020). "SDCC '20: The 2020 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award winners". Comics Beat . Retrieved July 1, 2022.

I suppose I should thank Jeff Vandermeer for giving me the heads up for this graphic novel. But that wouldn't be accurate. He was just a constant reminder that I wanted to get this book. And a constant reminder of Something Else too. No, that honor belongs to someone else, someone dear, truly. I want to eat deer too. The story is told as a diary-esque journal of doodles and thoughts by our young protagonist, Karen Reyes, who fancies herself as a werewolf child. She lives with her mother and brother in Chicago, 1960.

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters” and the Queerness of Horror “My Favorite Thing Is Monsters” and the Queerness of Horror

No sólo la historia, sino su estructura, el arte, las ilustraciones, las referencias visuales a otras obras plásticas, la historia de Karen es preciosa pero dolorosa. Una mezcla de monstruos reales e imaginarios. This was the '60s. I watched protests being broken up by the police. I saw bigotry. It made me think about our own inner monstrousness. [5] Whatever form they take, monsters have often fulfilled the role of both giving reason to the unexplainable and giving form to “the other” within society. But in modern civilization, the idea of the monster slowly shifted from an inhuman creature that should be feared and into an allegory that many would find relatable or even romantic. Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” published in 1818, can be seen as the inflection point within this shift, giving rise to a tide of gothic horror and complex monsters whose natures were often both caused by and a reflection of society. Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced". Publishers Weekly. June 5, 2018 . Retrieved April 7, 2019. Macdonald, Heidi (August 17, 2017). "2017 Ignatz Nominations include a new category; three noms for Ferris". Comics Beat . Retrieved March 2, 2019.Kroll, Justin (April 4, 2017). "Sam Mendes Circling 'My Favorite Thing Is Monsters' at Sony". Variety . Retrieved January 4, 2018. A nivel técnico destacaría que el texto y los dibujos se complementan perfectamente y creo que siendo la narración poco convencional es sin embargo fácil de seguir y no te pierdes en ningún momento. Karen loves Monsters and sees herself as a monster. She wants to be turned into one to save her mother. The artwork here is beautiful. There are pieces of artwork from galleries drawn in like Karen did a sketch of them. There are magazine covers for each would be issues and sketches all over the place. It is made to look like notebook paper that Karen is sketching on. Anka lives upstairs from Karen our 10 year old narrator who lives with her womanizing brother Deeze and her mother who is in the late stages of cancer. It's 1960s Chicago but the world this 10 year old builds from the perspective of a half werewolf includes dealing with bullies at school, and changing friends, the Holocaust, child prostitution in Nazi-occupied Germany, race relations, a possible murder investigation, classic art scholarship and ruminations on love and the budding awareness of her own sexuality.

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At the beginning of My Favorite Thing is Monsters, I loved the look of the thing, so intricate and colourful, but couldn't get much of a handle on the story. That's okay, I thought, it'll start making sense of itself soon. But it didn't. There are so many subplots, digressions and secondary characters crammed in that it becomes confusing and exhuasting (there's also a hell of a lot of text, some of it really difficult to read). I couldn't figure out what I was meant to care about, which meant I ended up not caring about anything. Of course I know this is a collection of issues of a comic; perhaps it would have made more sense if I'd rationed it out, read one section a week. But the fact that the end of the book is not the end of any of the million plotlines is yet another thing that makes it feel unsatisfying. One senses the author lovingly embraced this work so closely, and for so long, it might have been bittersweet for the author to bring it to an end and release into the world. 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. 14, 2017), comes a fresh, original voice in comics. Meet Emil Ferris.And then you delve into the narrative, a sort of Harriet the Spy meets Anne Frank monster mash-up, with a dose of Where the Wild Things Arethrown in for good measure and wrapped around dozens of other symbols and stories. Lo primero que llama la atención es el dibujo, nada convencional: es el diario de una niña, Karen, que lo escribe e ilustra en su libreta escolar rayada. La narración progresa entre viñetas esquemáticas en blanco y negro e imágenes llenas de trama y color que a menudo ocupan toda la página. Moi, ce que j'aime, c'est les monstres". Éditions Alto (in Canadian French). Archived from the original on September 12, 2018 . Retrieved September 12, 2018.

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters: Art, Mystery, and Identity My Favorite Thing Is Monsters: Art, Mystery, and Identity

Part of my love for this book comes from the fact that it is about a time in the Midwest I also lived through: My parents took me from Grand Rapids, Michigan at least twice a year to visit the various stunning Chicago museums, and always to the Art Institute. I live here now, but even if I didn’t I would know every painting she references (and draws with special skill!), thanks to my Mom. I was in elementary school when JFK was murdered, and in high school when MLK was killed and the riots erupted all over this country in rage. So I in some ways lived this late sixties story, and yet Karen's is nothing like my staid Dutch family. If you read one comics book this year, this is the one to read. Also, the 2018 Eisner Awards were just announced ten days ago: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters took best writer/artist, best coloring and best graphic album!! Yay, Emil Ferris!!! She deserves all the accolades, all the stars. This has been a hard year for a lot of reasons, and with few exceptions, everyone I know or have talked to says that they have read less. I understand why. My Favorite Thing is Monsters is not a book that can be read lightly. Those seeking escapist fare won’t find it here. This is a book about monsters, but in the book Karen makes an important distinction: “A good monster sometimes gives somebody a fright because they’re weird looking and fangy -- a fact that is beyond their control -- but bad monsters are all about control -- they want the whole world to be scared so that bad monsters can call the shots.” All the visits to the Chicago Art Institute, where some of the paintings Deeze introduces her to become some of her "best friends."When “Monsters” debuted in 2017, it marked the arrival of Ferris as one of the great, original comics artists of the modern era. A creator whose own style seemed at once astoundingly unique and deeply rooted in the teenage bedroom scribblings of our youth. But Ferris had worked for years at her craft, even recovering from paralysis caused by contracting West Nile Virus in 2001. As she relearned how to both walk and draw, her debut graphic novel served as a form of physical therapy.