Emil Ferris

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 neighbour, Anka Silverberg, a Holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When...

New York Times Notable Books of 2024 Chicago Public Library Favourite Books of 2024 Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Books of 2024 NPR Books We Love 2024 The Guardian Best Graphic Novels of 2024 Library Journal Best Graphic Novels of 2024 Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two is the eagerly...

Taking the form of the fictional graphic diary of ten-year-old self-identifying 'monster' Karen Reyes, and set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters has become a worldwide sensation since Book One announced Emil Ferris as one of fiction's world-class storytellers in 2017 and 2024's Book Two triumphantly concluded the epic graphic novel. Influenced...