My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

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The novel’s impact extends beyond its literary acclaim. It has opened doors for more diverse voices and storytelling approaches within the comic book industry, proving that graphic novels can be a powerful platform for exploring complex and deeply personal narratives. McMillan, Graeme (July 21, 2018). "Eisner Awards: The Complete Winners List". Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved July 21, 2018. 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. 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. Levitt, Aimee (October 27, 2016). " My Favorite Thing Is Monsters lost at sea—literally [Updated]". Chicago Reader. Archived from the original on July 17, 2018 . Retrieved January 4, 2018.

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it’s haunting and it bleeds but it is also celebratory and basically it is everything ever including cats Es una historia de misterio a primera vista. Parece que no se trata más que de la inocente investigación de una niña peculiar sobre el asesinato de su enigmática vecina. Pero pronto se convierte también un retrato de infancias complicadas y un vistazo a dos épocas históricas oscuras como la Chicago de los 60 y la alemania nazi. Y tampoco diría que se queda ahí. Es tal la avalancha de temas que va tocando durante estas 416 páginas que es harto imposible hablar de todos ellos. MacDonald, Heidi (May 31, 2018). "Reuben Award Winners: Glenn Keane wins The Reuben". Comics Beat . Retrieved April 23, 2019. Fast-forward a few hundred years and we land at Emil Ferris’ ‘My Favorite Thing Is Monsters.’ Emil Ferris’ epistolary graphic novel is a bildungsroman. Karen Reyes, Emil Ferris’ young narrator, visualises herself as a monster. A literal monster — something of a vampire, perhaps, although she defies simple categorization — she is even equipped with an under-bite fang. Karen Reyes’ obsession with monsters and monstrosity stems, however, not only from feeling like a monster but also from her desire to bond with her brother Deeze. He gives her comic novels with hints of monsters, and the covers of these comic novels form an interstitial narrative that interrupts and complicates the main story. While Karen Reyes’ monstrosity makes her feel like an outsider, she also has a deep faith in monsters. To her, monsters are saviours. Herself still a girl when she investigates Anka’s past, Karen Reyes comes to embody the archetype of the detective as someone who not only investigates a particular mystery but seeks the truth. In the most literal way, Karen Reyes risks danger for the truth by lifting cassette tapes labelled “Anka Silverberg Testimony,” hunting for concealed passageways in the basement of her apartment building, diving into paintings to follow demons, and consorting with convicted criminals in prison. But perhaps more poignant than these physical dangers is Karen Reyes compulsion to plumb the nature of death — and by extension the things that entail and define life. Anka’s death provides the catalyst for Karen Reyes’ adventures, but eventually, she must also navigate her own mother’s death, as well as Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. Along the way, she discovers that while some monsters are murderers, other monsters can provide hope in despairing times.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.”

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters” and the Queerness of Horror “My Favorite Thing Is Monsters” and the Queerness of Horror

urn:oclc:record:1392377991 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier myfavoritethingi0000ferr Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2hxh1f4xzb Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781606999592 It opens with something I ordinarily loath: an elaborate dream sequence. But Emil Ferris provides a refreshing turn on an overused trope. In Karen Reyes’ dream, an angry mob scours the streets in search of a monster, her. They fill their guns with silver bullets, and although Karen Reyes is hiding, they find her and shoot her. When she wakes up, alive but shivering, she has an important insight. MOB, she realises, is an acronym for, as she puts it, “Mad. Ordinary. Boring.” To be a monster is to defy these terms, to move beyond outrage, cliché, and bourgeois ennui and to become truly human. The MOB is Aristotle’s normal, whereas the monster exceeds. The MOB is a sign of human complacency, and the monster is the extension of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne’s hope for imagination. The MOB is the same, and the monster is Michel Foucault’s path to the crowning of difference. As in the ‘Beauty and the Beast’ stories, the MOB fights for the status quo and is angry at anyone who insists on their right to be any other way. This was the '60s. I watched protests being broken up by the police. I saw bigotry. It made me think about our own inner monstrousness. [5]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. 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. It's definitely not a simple tale. I mean, sure, I could break it down by saying it's about a ten-year-old girl in late 60's Chicago who identifies deeply with b-movie horror monsters but also identifies with being a private eye, who knows something fishy is going on when her neighbor, a survivor of the Holocaust is found dead after having been shot in the heart, moved from the living room to the bedroom, and being ruled as a suicide. The big thesis statement of MFTIM comes toward the end of the book as Karen considers the different kinds of monsters that exist in the world. Karen has idolized monsters for her entire life, specifically the strange, mutated outsiders that appeared in the late-night horror movies she catches on TV and the horror comics she reads voraciously, and she draws herself with werewolf-like features in her sketchbook. Karen considers herself and other misfits to be good monsters, people who don’t fit socially constructed views of what is normal and simply want to live their lives without hurting others. The bad monsters are the people who want to oppress, control, and/or destroy people that challenge their ideas, and this dichotomy is especially clear to Karen after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: PW Staff (December 20, 2017). " 'My Favorite Thing Is Monsters' Tops Annual 'PW' Graphic Novel Critics Poll". Publishers Weekly . Retrieved January 5, 2018.

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The Unlikely Story of Felix and Macabber” w/ Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou & Juni Ba | CBH Interviews #114 September 26, 2023 https://www.moma.org/s/ge/curated_ge/styles/new_objectivity.html#:~:text=The%20New%20Objectivity%20(Neue%20Sachlichkeit,or%20idealistic%20tendencies%20of%20Expressionism.Identity is a central theme in “My Favorite Thing Is Monsters.” Karen’s self-identification as a monster serves as a metaphor for the challenges of identity and belonging that many individuals face. As she grapples with her own identity, Karen’s quest to uncover the truth behind Anka’s death becomes an exploration of her own past and family history. Exploring Social Issues Any size contribution will help keep CBH alive and full of new comics guides and content. Support CBH on Patreon for exclusive rewards, or Donate here! Thank you for reading! Sava, Oliver; Rosberg, Caitlin; Hennum, Shea (December 5, 2017). "The best comics of 2017". The A.V. Club . Retrieved January 5, 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/20/emil-ferris-my-favorite-thing-is-monsters-graphic-novel

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Mouly, Françoise; Bormes, Genevieve (February 10, 2017). "A Graphic Novel About a Young Girl, a Murder, and the Allure of Monsters". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on February 10, 2017 . Retrieved January 5, 2018.

Wolk, Douglas (May 31, 2017). "New Graphic Novels Detail Personal Journeys and Twists of Fate". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 1, 2017 . Retrieved January 5, 2018. I suppose I should thank Jeff Vandermeer for giving me the heads up for this graphic novel. But that wouldn't be accurate. He was just a constant reminder that I wanted to get this book. And a constant reminder of Something Else too. No, that honor belongs to someone else, someone dear, truly. I want to eat deer too.