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My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two

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Buy My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two Paperback – May 28, 2024 on Biggreenbear.com Books & Collectibles.

The most anticipated graphic novel of 2024, concluding the story of young Karen Reyes, the most inspiring “monster” in contemporary fiction.

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Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two is the eagerly awaited conclusion to one of the most acclaimed graphic novels of the past decade. 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.

In Book Two, dark mysteries past and present continue to abound in the tumultuous and violent Chicago summer of 1968. Young Karen attends a protest in Grant Park and finds herself swept up in a police stomping. Privately, she continues to investigate Anka’s recent death and discovers one last cassette tape that sheds light upon Anka's heroic activities in Nazi Germany. She wrestles with her own sexual identity, the death of her mother, and the secrets she suspects her brother Deez of hiding. Ferris’s exhilarating cast of characters experience revelations and epiphanies that both resolve and deepen the mysteries visited upon them earlier. 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.

Full-color illustrations throughout

Review

"Emil Ferris is one of the most important comics artists of our time."
― 
Art Spiegelman (Maus)

"If you read Ferris’s original 2017 graphic novel, you can’t forget it: a beguiling, haunted hybrid of personal memoir, murder mystery and 20th-century time portal. This surreal and densely referential follow-up, drawn in Ferris’s signature cross-hatched style, continues to follow 10-year-old Karen Reyes in circa-1968 Chicago as she wrestles with loss, sexual identity and a host of secrets."
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The New York Times

"A thrilling and surprisingly profound novel ... The book is a fine balance of stunning artwork and terrific writing."
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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."
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Forbes

"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."
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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."
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The Guardian

"Ferris’s virtuosic illustrations, seemingly effortless mastery of plot and tone, and nuanced evocation of character and setting make this volume a uniquely immersive, thoroughly satisfying conclusion to Karen’s story."
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Library Journal

"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."
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The Los Angeles Review of Books

"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."
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Entertainment Weekly

"Ferris’ notebook journaling remains an incredibly effective storytelling device for the charming Karen Reyes, our would-be young lesbian werewolf detective. This work lives and breathes Chicago, July 1968 so effectively, it’s impossible not to feel yourself transported."
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Comic Book Herald

About the Author

Emil Ferris grew up in Chicago during the turbulent 1960s, where she still lives, and is consequently a devotee of all things monstrous and horrific. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fantagraphics (May 28, 2024)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 412 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1683969278
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1683969273
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 16 years and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.1 x 1.4 x 10.5 inches

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