Emil Ferris follows up her visually stunning 2017 debut graphic novel with its concluding half, “My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book 2.” Picking up where Book 1 left off, 10-year-old Karen Reyes is in a fever dream, processing the death of a loved one.
This cover image released by Fantagraphics Books shows “My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Book 2" by Emil Ferris. This cover image released by Fantagraphics Books shows “My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Book 2" by Emil Ferris. This cover image released by Fantagraphics Books shows “My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Book 2" by Emil Ferris. This cover image released by Fantagraphics Books shows “My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Book 2" by Emil Ferris.
For the uninitiated, the story is essentially Karen’s diary as she dons a detective hat and oversized coat to solve mysteries — like who killed the upstairs neighbor and where her emaciated classmate disappeared to — in 1968, featuring historical events like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination and Vietnam War protests. Karen, a monster-loving Catholic school student who identifies more with werewolves than with girls, sketches her experiences in lined notebooks.
Ferris revels in gray areas and often calls taboos and moral lines into question, using Karen’s elementary-age perspective as an opportunity to see people not as their profession, race or sexuality, but as people — or, in any case, monsters, but equalizing regardless.
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