#My Favorite Thing is Monsters

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My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two by Emil Ferris will be published in paperback and e-book on May 28 via Fantagraphics. The 412-page graphic novel is the conclusion to 2017's award-winning My Favorite Thing Is Monsters.

Its presented as a diary of a 10-year-old girl as she attempts to solve the murder of her Holocaust survivor neighbor, illustrated with ballpoint pen. An excerpt can be read at The New Yorker.

Dark mysteries past and present continue to abound in the tumultuous and violent Chicago summer of 1968. 10-year-old Karen Reyes attends a protest in Grant Park and finds herself swept up in a police stomping. Privately, she continues to investigate her beloved and enigmatic upstairs neighbor Anka Silverberg’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.

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My Favorite Thing is Monsters, 2017, by Emil Ferris

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A series 6 of pages from the graphic novel My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris

Page one: Karen (stylized as a werewolf girl) and Missy are two young girls watching a horror movie. Karen's narration says "Horror Theater played this movie 'Dracula's Daughter' and there was this one part where Countess Dracula kidnaps this woman named Janet..." Missy says "I think that the countess almost..." Karen finishes "...kissed her..."

Karen's narration says "That was the night we cut our fingers and became...blood sisters" and then "As I hung up my detective coat in the cloak room I remembered how I'd waited till Missy was asleep. I'd said, "You are beautiful" and then..."

A sleeping Missy says "...I love you Kare...I love you so much..." as Karen kisses her hand. Countess Dracula looks on and says "Oh Karen, you are far braver than I ever was!" Karen's narration says "I think she meant it because she said it from her asleep self not her awake self..."

Page two: The Next Morning. Missy and Karen are eating cereal. Missy says "Karen, do you think that a girl could become the bride of dracula's daughter?" Karen says "If they love each other then why not?"

Karen's narration says "I think Missy went home and asked her mom the same question because later Missy's mom called and demanded to know what we'd seen on TV..."

Karen's mom on the telephone says "Just some old Creepshow is all..." Missy's mom from the telephone says "That junk! I really should not be surprised as people of your class never protect their kids from bad influences!" She hangs up.

Karen's narration says "As I sat in school (getting my daily doses of paper airplanes) I thought about how that had been the last sleepover we ever had. Over the next few weeks I heard that all of Missy's monster magazines got replaced by hair and beauty mags. Her boardgames, like 'Haunted House' got replaced with, 'The Mystery Date Game'..."

Page 3: Karen's narration says "But we are still blood sisters, so no matter how mean Missy is, I can't be mean back. Her blood is inside of me. Sometimes I think if you were to put one of those x-ray machines up to me, you would see the old Missy, the Missy from when we used to love monsters together and I have to protect that part of her..." Karen gives a thumbs up to this x-ray picture of old Missy.

Page 4: Karen's narration says "...Because inside of Missy that part is in a coffin, in a crypt, staked, and hungry and all alone..." Missy gives a thumbs down to her x-ray self. Missy says "Only 3 things matter! What you wear how you do your hair and...the boy that you date!"

Page 5: Werewolf Karen and Vampire Missy embrace in a stairwell. Karen thinks "I don't care if it turns out that this was all a mean prank...for right now I get to hold her in my arms and stroke her hair." Missy says "The times when I'm with you are the only ones when I'm...myself."

Page 6: Missy's mother calls down the stairwell and says "Missy! What are you doing in the stairwell? Come back to your guests!" Missy tells her "So the neighbors don't see Karen getting on at our floor, she's taking the elevator at the floor below ours." Missy's mother says "Finally you're being sensible about that...girl!"

Still embracing, Karen says "Missy, you sure your mom won't come down here and catch us?" Missy says "She never walks down the stairs in high heels when she's been drinking. She'll be passed out by ten tonight. Horror Feature is playing 'Carnival of Souls' tonight...um...wanna call me and we can watch it over the phone together?"

Karen says "Sure."

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MY FAVORITE THING IS MONSTERS 2 IS OUT FOR PRE-ORDER!!!!

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[smashpages]

Second volume of ‘My Favorite Thing is Monsters’ by Emil Ferris will arrive next year

Fantagraphics will publish book two of the critically acclaimed, award-winning graphic novel series.

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My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris.

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My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Emil Ferris. 2018

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📖 My Favorite Thing is Monsters, 🖋 Emil Ferris

Finished 10/17/22

📔: Graphic novel that portrays the diary of ten year old Karen Reyes who’s investigating the murder of her neighbor, a beautiful and peculiar woman. Set in socially/politically tumultuous Chicago’s Uptown during the 1960’s, Karen moves about the city, interviewing her neighbors, uncovering intertwined dark histories. 

There is so much in this book!!! Like so much. There’s complicated family trauma, lots of lying and secrets in a futile attempt to protect the people you care about. Lots of dysfunctional grieving, a really heart wrenching subplot of Anka’s childhood in the holocaust. It’s also got a coming of age/coming to terms with being queer for our narrator, Karen. 

As the title suggests, the entire novel deals with the monsters in our world, in our villains, in our loved ones, in ourselves. The illustrations are distinctive, and the prose can hit you like a cartoon anvil. One of my favorite things about the book is that because Karen often visits the Chicago Art Institute, there’s a lot of “notebook sketches” of famous historical art pieces woven into the story. Also loved all of the illustrations of areas in Uptown - where I live!! The Graceland cemetery, the Wilson red line stop (my stop!!), and the distinctly Chicago buildings.

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My Favorite Thing is Monsters

by Emil Ferris

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My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two, by Emil Ferris

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Of course when the history books tell of the groups murdered by the nazis, they never list the prostitutes, because I’m sure the mention of their deaths is considered a stain on the other victims. The attitude is that the lives of prostitutes are worthless. I think it is self-hate. Our world hates anyone who would accept us and our bodies, and our secret desires without reservation. But that is what the ladies taught me… to welcome disdained things.

- my favorite thing is monsters, Emil Ferris

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[onebluebookworm]

January 2024 Book Club Picks

The Banishment by Marion Chesney: Isabella Beverly is both blessed and cursed. One of the most beautiful young ladies in all of England, rich and secure beyond her wildest dreams, she's horrifically snobbish and haughty. But Isabella knows what others think of her doesn't matter. As long as her family has their precious home of Mannerling, nothing else matters. But when Isabella's father loses everything in a drunken gamble - Mannerling included - the family is forced into genteel poverty, and Isabella finds out there's very little sympathy to her family's plight. As the eldest of six sisters, it's Isabella's duty to court Mannerling's new owner, Mr. Judd, in hopes of marrying him and regaining her beloved home. But tempting her away from her mission is the dark and handsome Lord Fitzpatrick, who is convinced no manner can rival Mannerling in Isabella's heart...and becomes determined to woo her anyway.

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris: Karen Reyes is ten years old, living in politically charged world of 1960s Chicago. A loner at school and quiet at home, Karen fills her time with B-movies and pulp monster magazines. When her mysterious upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, is found murdered in her apartment, Karen is determined to find Anka's killer, using diaries and recordings in Anka's apartment to piece together a life of pain and sorrow in Nazi Germany. Also I'm sure the second volume will come out any day now. Aaaaaaaany day now.

Brief, Horrible Moments by Marko Pandza: Horror often happens in moments. All it takes is one split second of distraction, malice, or simple bad luck for the everyday to turn terrifying. Pandza recounts several of these moments in these one-sentence stories. Lock the doors, turn up the lights, and take a deep breath. A series of brief, horrible moments await.

The Girl from the Other Side by Nagabe: In a land far away, two kingdoms sit - the Inside, where humans live safe and protected, and the Outside, where twisted monsters roam that can curse with a touch. The girl and the beast should never have met, but when they do, both their lives are changed forever, as the mystery of their pasts unfold and both the Inside and Outside encroach on their carefully cultivated safety.

Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix: Three young women - Bella, a recent immigrant from Italy who doesn't speak a word of English; Yetta, a Russian immigrant and crusader for labor rights; and Jane, daughter of a wealthy businessman feeling stifled by her class' roles for her - meet in the most unlikely of ways under the most unlikely of circumstances. They become fast friends, each helping with a worker's strike at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, totally unaware of how quickly they're hurtling towards an unimaginable tragedy.

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