and reproductions of paintings so famous, even i recognize them, so forgery would not be a bad second career choice for her Macdonald, Heidi (March 14, 2017). "My Favorite Thing Is Monsters gets 30,000 second printing". Comics Beat . Retrieved March 2, 2019. she also writes outsider characters so freaking well, and not just limited to one kind of outsider experience, but all those little bits of physical difference or details or flaws or mistakes less-evident-to-others that set us apart or make us feel alone - there’s a character in here for that. which made it feel similar to Infinite Jest to me, but only in that one aspect. this isn’t a true panoply because it’s essentially told through one voice/perspective, but the range of encountered characters and the heavy smog of loneliness definitely made me think of IJ. I make a distinction between good monsters―those that can’t help being different―and rotten monsters, those people whose behavior is designed around objectives of control and subjugation,” said Ferris. “I don’t really think they deserve the title of monster. In my mind that’s an honorable title. It represents struggle and wisdom bought at a high, painful price.

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Históricamente es fascinante, porque se enseña el Chicago de esa época desde un barrio conflictivo, pero también con ello la historia de ese momento de todo Estados Unidos: mafia hereditaria de los tiempos de Al Capone, prostitución, droga, pobreza, segregación racial y racismo en general, homofobia, violaciones, machismo, la Guerra de Vietnam en marcha, el asesinato de Martin Luther King cuando todavía pesaba en la sociedad el de Kennedy... Completito; la falta de esperanza que se transmite es total. Pero además, uno de los personajes (Anka) cuenta su pasado, que acontece en la Alemania nazi previa a la Segunda Guerra Mundial y también en los inicios de este conflicto. 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. The book is written in a notebook style by Karen with drawings and stories. The artwork is totally awesome! Karen draws herself as a werewolf <-- she could really be! Siodmak fled from Nazi Germany in the ‘30s to escape the growing tide of antisemitism that would give way to genocide. And in “The Wolf Man,” the curse of the werewolf is tied to visions of a pentagram, which bears a striking resemblance to the yellow badges forced on Jews by the Nazis. This “othering” of the monster by society shows deep ties to how the worst of us systemically single out and persecute those we choose to label as inhuman.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. The Bite That Changed My Life", a short comic by Emil Ferris telling her story for Chicago Magazine, also utilizing the art style of the graphic novel. 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. Looking forward to Book Two, Ferris said, “Essentially, Book Two is about how we survive the most difficult things within a broken world, and about how love and art can save us.” You are here: Home / Featured / My Favorite Thing Is Monsters: A Beautiful Descent Into Darkness My Favorite Thing Is Monsters: A Beautiful Descent Into Darkness

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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.” The story tries to focus on an ostracized 5th grader named Karen who lives in Uptown Chicago with her older brother Diego "Deeze" Reyes, a ladykiller whose love of art has been passed down the family tree, and their single mother, a caring but superstitious lady. A lover of horror magazines and Saturday night creature features, Karen doodles relentlessly and handles rejection by her best friend Missy by envisioning herself as a werewolf. These diversions offer little help as Karen is drawn into the mysterious death of their upstairs neighbor Anka Silverberg, a beguiling Jew who survived the Holocaust only to catch a bullet in her living room. Garner, Dwight; Senior, Jennifer; Sehgal, Parul; Maslin, Janet (December 7, 2017). "Times Critics' Top Books of 2017". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 5, 2018 . Retrieved January 5, 2018. Powers, John (February 22, 2017). " 'My Favorite Thing Is Monsters' Is a Dazzling, Graphic Novel Tour-De-Force". NPR . Retrieved January 5, 2018.

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the range of styles is technically impressive and it also broadens the visual interest and enhances the reader’s take on the characters’ moods and inner lives. and if that weren’t enough, this variegated quality is mirrored in the writing - she has a facility writing across themes and tones and emotions and genres and subject matters and has created a work with a profoundly emotional texture that will make you laugh at its odd and perfect descriptions The word 'aftermath' came to mind. I guess it means the time after something terrible happens when you do the math to figure out what has been added and what's been subtracted. 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.Anka es marcada con una estrella amarilla por ser judía y creo que ése es el tema central del libro: la estigmatización del diferente, etiquetar al que se desvía de la normalidad. Al apartar y temer a lo que consideramos monstruoso quizá los monstruos estamos siendo nosotros. La protagonista es Karen Reyes, una niña de once años a quien apasionan las películas de terror y los cómics tipo pulp. Karen vive con su madre y su hermano mayor en un "piso" en el sótano de un edificio, en el Uptown de Chicago de finales de los años 60. Un día, Anka, la vecina un tanto extraña del piso de arriba, muere en extrañas circunstancias; la causa de la muerte es tan poco clara que la policía cierra el caso como suicidio y se lava las manos, pero Karen cree que ha sido un asesinato y decide investigarlo. Durante sus pesquisas se dará cuenta de muchas cosas, descubrirá otras tantas y también se irá descubriendo a sí misma.