My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

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Am liebsten mag ich Monster". Panini (in German). Archived from the original on June 25, 2018 . Retrieved June 25, 2018. a b c d e Thielman, Sam (February 20, 2017). "Emil Ferris: 'I didn't want to be a woman – being a monster was the best solution' ". The Guardian . Retrieved January 4, 2018. Missy’s mother finds out about this conversation and the girls’ (innocent) nocturnal activities. She promptly forbids Missy from seeing Karen again outside school. Missy’s mother calls Karen’s, yelling “I really should not be surprised as people of your class never protect their kids from bad influences.” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/20/emil-ferris-my-favorite-thing-is-monsters-graphic-novel

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Her feelings of monstrousness extend beyond her physical appearance. Karen harbors secret romantic feelings for her best friend, Missy. The two girls bond over their shared love of horror films. At one point Missy remarks that she only ever feels like herself when she’s watching horror movies with Karen. One touching sequence in the book shows them watching Bride of Dracula and being so scared they decide to sleep beside one another. The way their adjacent sleeping bags are drawn makes them appear as two halves of a heart. Another night they stay up late to watch Dracula’s Daughter and are clearly mesmerized when Countess Dracula is about to kiss a woman named Janet, her captive. The next morning Missy asks Karen, “Do you think that a girl could become the bride of Dracula’s daughter?” Karen responds, “If they love each other, why not?” I think this is a fantastic book. What I like about this book is that it reminds me of being in those teenage years. So much is going on in your life, family, friends, enemies, life around you, things you like and are into and figuring out who you are going to be. Mysteries abound. Everything is in this book just about. All this is happening for Karen through her eyes and it's pretty big stuff.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. Y si hablamos del apartado artístico... es demoledor. Unico. Inigualable. Cada página acapara tal variedad de técnicas, estilos y composiciones que sería imposible pararse a describirlos uno por uno. Es toda una experiencia, repleta de estructuras absolutamente libres y que solo tienen en común esos trazos a bolígrafo repletos de colores fríos y líneas agudas sin difuminar.

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Even at an early age, Anka moved from tragedy to tragedy, growing up in a brothel, forced into prostitution herself, and only able to escape the holocaust by turning to a man who abused her as a child. Karen’s brother Deeze and her mother, while loving, caring people, hide violent secrets, too. It’s a testament to Ferris’ characterization that we can see so many people’s worst sides, yet still understand them as complex people whose beauty shines out from the scars.It's definitely not a simple tale. I mean, sure, I could break it down by saying it's about a ten-year-old girl in late 60's Chicago who identifies deeply with b-movie horror monsters but also identifies with being a private eye, who knows something fishy is going on when her neighbor, a survivor of the Holocaust is found dead after having been shot in the heart, moved from the living room to the bedroom, and being ruled as a suicide. Otra cosa a destacar de esta obra es la cantidad de referencias artísticas que hay. El hermano de Karen es pintor (o un intento de ello) y siempre la ha llevado mucho al Instituto de Arte de Chicago, el museo de arte más importante de la ciudad. Durante la novela se reproducen pinturas de las que hay en el museo, pero también las podemos ver de forma disimulada en escenas de vida cotidiana que dibuja Karen, ya que su visión artística es muy amplia. Peppered in between all that are Karen's notebook drawings of all kinds of things-her neighborhood, her brother and mom, and the covers of pulp magazines. She also likes to draw her version of popular paintings which her brother takes her to see at the local museums. All of her drawings are on lined notebook paper and all I can say about them is that they are stunning. All in pen, but not all in color-each and every drawing is so detailed you can stare at them for a long while and continue to find new things.

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Structurally, “Monsters” is designed as Karen’s massive spiral-bound journal, recording her monster fantasies and journey of discovery. It’s a mammoth work of art that challenges us to better understand the perspectives of the marginalized and as Book 1 of a two-volume story still waiting on its second half, “Monsters” exists as a dark journey into the horrors we suffer and the ways in which we must change to find hope. It’s a grim, unflinching story that plumbs the depths of both historical and fictional tragedy, but whose transcendent art offers a passage through the darkness. The Comfort of Monsters

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My Favorite Thing Is Monsters takes place in Chicago in the late 1960s. MLK is shot and killed during the course of the story and the city and Ferris’ characters react to the loss with pain, numbness and self-destructive decisions. Ferris weaves in history the way Mad Men shows us the 1960s, from the inside out. Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced". Publishers Weekly. June 5, 2018 . Retrieved April 7, 2019. The second volume is set to be published in April 2024 by Fantagraphics. [1] In April 2023, Pantheon Books acquired an upcoming prequel titled Records of the Damned. [2] Production [ edit ] The graphic novel is presented as a personal diary in a lined spiral notebook. Dueben, Alex (April 25, 2017). "My Favorite Thing is Monsters Author Talks 2017's Buzziest Graphic Novel". Comic Book Resources . Retrieved January 5, 2018. So what we see in Ferris’ graphic novel is that those who are depicted in the most traditional, non-human visuals of monsterhood are beautiful and broken outcasts.

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The first volume was published by Fantagraphics on February14, 2017. The graphic novel won the 2017 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel and two 2018 Eisner Awards, and was nominated for a 2018 Hugo Award. The French edition won the ACBD's Prix de la critique and the Fauve D'Or at the 2019 Angoulême International Comics Festival. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters has received critical acclaim and is considered by many critics to be one of the best graphic novels of 2017.La historia tiene lugar en los años 60 en un barrio de Chicago y seguimos las aventuras de Karen, una niña inteligente y simpática que sufre la triple marginación de ser diferente: por ser de una minoría étnica, por su familia disfuncional y por su inclinación sexual. Su manera de afrontarlo es creer en los monstruos y considerarse uno ella misma, ya que es lo que la sociedad le está diciendo. Pero su actitud no es para nada victimista, me encanta su sentido del humor y su valentía.