Every strange artistic decision feels right, even if you’ve never seen it done this way before.Īnd then you delve into the narrative, a sort of Harriet the Spy meets Anne Frank monster mash-up, with a dose of Where the Wild Things Are thrown in for good measure and wrapped around dozens of other symbols and stories. Page after page of organic, dense layouts in the service of the story swirling spreads that are about using drawing to capture or hide truths such as the splash of green in a pupil or the complex, multi-layered expression on a woman’s face for a fleeting instant in time, all created with an ever-changing variety of mediums and styles.
The imagery and storytelling are all Ferris. The cross-hatching used to both vividly delineate detailed forms and evoke a wide palette of emotion rivals the mature work of Robert Crumb and evokes numerous graphic masters (for me, Maurice Sendak, among others). 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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