Sumptuous, skillful, articulate, intelligent, passionate renderings with pencil and pen lines. The first thing that strikes, strokes (your fur), stripes and stretches you on embarking into My Favorite Thing is Monsters is the drawing. 14, 2017), comes a fresh, original voice in comics. With the release of My Favorite Thing is Monsters, from Fantagraphics and just in time for Halloween in 2016 (Update: the book's release is now scheduled for Feb. One senses the author lovingly embraced this work so closely, and for so long, it might have been bittersweet for the author to bring it to an end and release into the world. Does this mean some of the work was re-drawn, or it will show up in Book Two? One thing we can know for sure, Ferris has been working on this book for a long, long time – and it shows. A 2010 video shows pages from the long-form work that would become My Favorite Thing is Monsters – only the cover and pages are different. She holds an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and has been an animator and toy designer. The author, one Emil Ferris, seemingly arrives from nowhere to join the ranks of graphic storytellers of the first order. The world of this 386-page part one of a monstrous graphic novel has been thoroughly lived in and explored so that we, the reader, can take a fantastic journey.
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