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

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

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.-- "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.-- "Entertainment Weekly"

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.-- "The New York Times"

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.-- "Library Journal"

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.-- "Comic Book Herald"

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

Pub date: 2024-05-28

Length: 412 pages