Emil Ferris

Ganador del premio Whiting en ficci n. La novela gr fica del a o en m s de 100 listas de Europa y Estados Unidos «Emil Ferris es una de las artistas de novela gr fica m s importante de nuestra era . Art Spiegelman Premiada con 2 Ignatz, 3 Eisner, 1 Guinigi, 1 ACBD Gran Prix, 1 Carlos Gim nez, 1 Premio de los Libreros de Madrid, 1 Premio del C mic Aragon s. Premio al mejor C mic Internacional del Sal n Internacional del C mic de Barcelona 2019. Un c mic que ya se ha convertido en un cl sico moderno. Esta es la historia de Karen Reyes, una peculiar ni a de diez a os que vive en la oscura Chicago de finales de los sesenta. Lleva un diario gr fico que refleja su pasi n por las pel culas de terror de serie B y la iconograf a de las revistas pulp de monstruos. Se retrata a s misma como una ni a-lobo vestida de detective y, como tal, se propone un d a resolver el misterio que rodea el asesinato de su bella y enigm tica vecina del piso de arriba, Anka Silverberg, una superviviente del Holocausto. Mientras Karen investiga el crimen, veremos pasar las vidas fascinantes e interconectadas de todos quienes la rodean: su hermano Deeze, cuyo alistamiento a Vietnam es inminente y a quien tortura un secreto del pasado; su madre Marvela, una mujer impredecible que ha sacado adelante a una familia parcialmente disfuncional; Sam Silverberg, el R pido, baterista de jazz reci n enviudado; el Sr. Gronan, casero del edificio y mafioso a tiempo parcial; Sylvia Gronan, esposa de este y conocedora de los secretos de la comunidad; el Sr. Chugg, un ventr locuo de extra as costumbres; y el extra o y conmovedor cat logo de amigos de Karen, reales e irreales a partes iguales. Cuando las pesquisas de Karen se ramifiquen hasta llegar a la Alemania nazi, va a manifestarse claramente c mo pueden converger lo personal y lo pol tico, el pasado y el presente, y c mo incluso el bien puede albergar una porci n de lo monstruoso. Lo que m s me gusta son los monstruos es una explosi n narrativa sin precedentes que ya ha encumbrado a su autora entre los grandes maestros contempor neos del c mic. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Winner of the Whiting Award in Fiction. In this debut, which takes the form of a fictional graphic diary, a 10-year-old girl tries to solve a murder. Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen's investigation takes us back to Anka's life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge. Full-color illustrations throughout.

Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two is the eagerly awaited conclusion to one of the most acclaimed graphic novels of the past decade. Presented as the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes as she tries to solve the murder of her beloved and enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. In Book Two, dark mysteries past and present continue to abound in the tumultuous and violent Chicago summer of 1968. Young Karen attends a protest in Grant Park and finds herself swept up in a police stomping. Privately, she continues to investigate Anka's recent death and discovers one last cassette tape that sheds light upon Anka's heroic activities in Nazi Germany. She wrestles with her own sexual identity, the death of her mother, and the secrets she suspects her brother Deez of hiding. Ferris's exhilarating cast of characters experience revelations and epiphanies that both resolve and deepen the mysteries visited upon them earlier. Visually, the story is told in Ferris's inimitable style that breathtakingly and seamlessly combines panel-to-panel storytelling and cartoon montages filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster mag iconography.

Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen's investigation takes us back to Anka's life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge.