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. 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.

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I adored my reading experience with this. I don’t read enough graphic novels because when I do, I more often than not love every second of doing so. This one was particularly stunning 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. There’s something comforting and empowering about becoming a monster. Losing your humanity and all the pain that comes with it when changing into something fierce and strange enough to scare away everything that once terrified us. In the world of Emil Ferris, to be a monster is to be something beautiful in spite of everything that has scarred and broken us.

Macdonald, Heidi (March 14, 2017). "My Favorite Thing Is Monsters gets 30,000 second printing". Comics Beat . Retrieved March 2, 2019. Dueben, Alex (December 31, 2017). "Best Comics of 2017: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Already a Classic". Comic Book Resources . Retrieved January 5, 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.” As the story opens, Karen Reyes’ neighbor, a troubled and beautiful Polish woman named Anka, has suddenly died. That's Anka's beautiful face on the cover of Book One, frightened, world-weary, and full of secretsthat perhaps can be unfolded by looking deeply into the her left eye that stares out at us (there's that eye/seeing theme again). By her own hand, or so they say. Karen, who has a rich interior landscape, sees reasons to question the suicide call and begins to investigate. Karen is a fan of monsters – especially the Universal Studios kind: the Wolf Man, Dracula, and Frankenstein.

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Emil Ferris’ “ My Favorite Thing is Monsters ” was published in 2017 for Fantagraphics and takes place in 1968 Chicago, following young Karen Reyes, a girl who feels completely out of place in the world and finds solace in the idea of B-movie and horror magazine monsters. Karen imagines herself to be a werewolf, embracing the fantasies of horror when unable to come to grips with the darkness of the world around her, which is only intensified by the mysterious violent death of her upstairs neighbor Anka, her spiraling troubled brother Deeze, and her mother’s cancer diagnosis. Slowly, Karen works to unravel the mystery of Anka’s death while learning about her tragic life, coming face to face with the darkest aspects of the world and trying to transcend the true horrors in life through art.Macdonald, Heidi (August 17, 2017). "2017 Ignatz Nominations include a new category; three noms for Ferris". Comics Beat . Retrieved March 2, 2019.

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters: Art, Mystery, and Identity My Favorite Thing Is Monsters: Art, Mystery, and Identity

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... Qué maravilla. Decidí leer un cómic para sobrellevar mi crisis lectora y me decanté por este, ya que lo tenía desde hacía varios meses en la recámara. Y definitivamente me ha curado y me ha renovado las ganas de leer, porque es tan maravilloso, aúna tantas cosas y tiene un dibujo tan original que sin duda es de lo mejor que he leído en su género (y de lo mejor que he leído en general). And last but not least Karen, the werewolf detective girl, one of the great characters of all comics history! Sava, Oliver; Rosberg, Caitlin; Hennum, Shea (December 5, 2017). "The best comics of 2017". The A.V. Club . Retrieved January 5, 2018. The Unlikely Story of Felix and Macabber” w/ Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou & Juni Ba | CBH Interviews #114 September 26, 2023PW Staff (December 20, 2017). " 'My Favorite Thing Is Monsters' Tops Annual 'PW' Graphic Novel Critics Poll". Publishers Weekly . Retrieved January 5, 2018. 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.