My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

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No sólo la historia, sino su estructura, el arte, las ilustraciones, las referencias visuales a otras obras plásticas, la historia de Karen es preciosa pero dolorosa. Una mezcla de monstruos reales e imaginarios. 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.

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The story of “Monsters” isn’t all just the worst of what we experience, of course. It’s filled with small moments of human connection and the times in which we understand one another in innate, spiritual ways. The moments our souls connect and see one another for the full, complete, broken beings that we are. These are what make life worth living, what make it possible to reforge ourselves. And art is the tool used in that reforging. Karen’s monster obsessions help her understand her burgeoning romantic feelings. Her study of real life paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago works as a spiritual portal that helps her find truths she wouldn’t be able to otherwise. And this entire journal we’ve been given to read is the journey of a young girl processing the loss of innocence in her life. Lo primero que llama la atención es el dibujo, nada convencional: es el diario de una niña, Karen, que lo escribe e ilustra en su libreta escolar rayada. La narración progresa entre viñetas esquemáticas en blanco y negro e imágenes llenas de trama y color que a menudo ocupan toda la página.

As a reader of Ferris’ story, we experience several degrees of separation from the truth we are trying to understand. Ferris is drawing Karen’s experiences as a personal journal, which is informed by the perspective of a child. Eventually, Karen hears Anka’s tapes, listening to her neighbor speak about her own traumatic life, which the readers experience through illustrations, creating yet another layer of separation. These are experiences given second, third, or even fourth hand, leaving it up to the reader to parse through both metaphors and mistakes for a stronger grasp on reality. El álbum es una llamada a la tolerancia: las escenas del asesinato de Martin Luther King transmiten la desolación de una sociedad que ha matado a lo mejor de sí misma.

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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.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. 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. Dueben, Alex (April 25, 2017). "My Favorite Thing is Monsters Author Talks 2017's Buzziest Graphic Novel". Comic Book Resources . Retrieved January 5, 2018. To be a monster, in the gothic, Universal Pictures sense, is to be an outcast of society. To be shunned from a humanity that hates your differences, but to also embody the power that derives from not being subject to the worst of human impulses.

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Karen loves Monsters and sees herself as a monster. She wants to be turned into one to save her mother. The artwork here is beautiful. There are pieces of artwork from galleries drawn in like Karen did a sketch of them. There are magazine covers for each would be issues and sketches all over the place. It is made to look like notebook paper that Karen is sketching on. Powers, John (February 22, 2017). " 'My Favorite Thing Is Monsters' Is a Dazzling, Graphic Novel Tour-De-Force". NPR . Retrieved January 5, 2018. Siento prácticamente que todo lo que diga se quedará corto para intentar hablar de Lo que más me gusta son los monstruos.

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. 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. Brown, Tracy (April 26, 2018). " 'My Favorite Thing Is Monsters' and 'Monstress' lead 2018 Eisner Awards nominations". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved March 2, 2019. 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.”