My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

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Chiu-Tabet, Christopher (April 20, 2023). "The Rundown: April 20, 2023". Multiversity Comics . Retrieved September 18, 2023. but if you need more convincing, here are some thoughts from someone who is not an industry superstar and hasn’t gotten much sleep lately. 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. Sava, Oliver; Rosberg, Caitlin; Hennum, Shea (December 5, 2017). "The best comics of 2017". The A.V. Club . Retrieved January 5, 2018. 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.”

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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... 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. I didn’t ever want to be a woman. I mean, it just did not look like a good thing, nor did being a man, because it felt like they were being victimized by the same system. Being a monster seemed like the absolute best solution.” MacDonald, Heidi (May 31, 2018). "Reuben Award Winners: Glenn Keane wins The Reuben". Comics Beat . Retrieved April 23, 2019.Karen's brother Deeze bought her copies of Dread, Spectral and Ghastly. These were horror magazines and they show front covers of some of them through out the book. 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.

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Sadness, identity, grief, sexuality, prostitution, systematic abuse, the mob, Martin Luther King, love, madness, and mystery all play a very central role throughout the volume. And in a very serious way. I found myself staying up very late to see where it was all headed, only to break down in tears at a certain point because the novel had successfully burrowed under my skin. My favorite thing is Monsters, too. It really is. Monsters, left all alone with my own kind, it's the only thing that keeps me going, you know. That and this new harvest moon, it is so lovely. It's a favorite as well, but not the girl who has a little bit of the moon still left in her name. Still that's not wrong. She's not a favorite. Not anymore. Nope. She's still cute though, but not my favorite. Hoang, Lily (April 9, 2017). "Monster, Monster, On the Wall". Los Angeles Review of Books . Retrieved January 5, 2018. Much like Ferris as a young girl, Karen Reyes is obsessed with monsters. Everything in life is filtered through the idea of monsterism, from depicting herself as a little werewolf to obsessive recreations of faux horror magazines to the ways in which people in Karen’s life are translated through a monster lens. But there is a distinct difference between the romantic, positive depiction of being a monster akin to a B-movie creature and being a human monster whose true horror comes from real world violence. The intertwined stories of Karen and Anka touch up many complicated issues: sexual identity, abuse, bullying, racism, cancer, the horrors of WWII, the harshness of the poor Chicago neighborhoods... It would not have worked in prose: the illustrations, of varying styles depending on what's going on in the narrative, make the story that much richer and more absorbing.

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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.

Read this for the fourth time in less than a year and a half, in part because I have now taught it three times in that span of time for different classes. This time I read it for my summer graphic novels and comics class. This is the first of two huge volumes, and who knows when that second volume will come out [September 22, 2022, I just said!]. The first volume itself took many years to finally see the light of day, so we will just have to be patient. This in part defines the serialized reading experience: Waiting (and trying to remember what happened when you first began reading). It’s this wave of newfound modern identification with the monster that we find personified in our central figure of “My Favorite Thing is Monsters.” a b c d e f Tumey, Paul (February 22, 2017). "The Emil Ferris Interview: Monsters, Art and Stories (Part 2)". The Comics Journal . Retrieved January 4, 2018. New Objectivity focused on unsentimental reality that often leaned toward the grotesquely satirical as it observed the objective world around the artist. Alongside this approach, many of the faces in the crowds are drawings of strangers that Ferris observed while out in public. And it’s no coincidence that a large portion of Anka’s story takes place in Weimar Germany, which stretched from 1918 to 1933, when Hitler and the Nazis seized power.

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Grunenwald, Joe (June 19, 2023). "My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two coming next year from Fantagraphics". Comics Beat . Retrieved September 18, 2023.

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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. However, there is only one Monster I care about. Too bad she isn't a monster, not even close, not even a little bit. Not even monstrous. But she is still my favorite thing. Karen’s child-life is hardly realistic. In one sequence, the kid knowingly eats a pot brownie, visits a cemetery at night and meets the ghost of Kate Warn, a proto-secret service agent who watched over Lincoln so well, her vigilant eye was used as the logo for a detective agency and thus spawned the term “private eye.” (One learns a lot of interesting facts, reading Ferris. Don’t even ask me about the meaning of the Gorgon myth!). My friend also lent me all of his Cronenbergs, which he had referred to as “body horror.” Body horror! I felt that every day! All the movies were subversive and transgressive and vaguely erotic. They gave me an outlet for my own bodily insecurities, as if seeing other bodies destroyed on screen made my own feel lighter.