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A review by eraofkara
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris
5.0
Hoo boy.
I actually had to go back and reread the last quarter of the book, because I was sick at the original time of reading, and I wasn't sure if I caught everything or if it was all a crazy fever dream. (I had. It wasn't.) Ferris' work is utterly amazing, both in scope and in form. Her art travels from lurid, R. Crumb-like caricature to realism to pulp horror to scrapey sketched cartoons, and all with a set of regular ol' Bic pens. Just paging through her scenes of late '60s-era Uptown in Chicago blew me away.
My only qualm with the book is that there are so many dang B plots that it was easy to get confused, or have to flip back and remember what was happening with X person. Still, those stories are heartfelt, heartsick, disturbing, and somehow both gorgeous and grotesque. Absolutely recommended, and I can't wait for Book 2.
I actually had to go back and reread the last quarter of the book, because I was sick at the original time of reading, and I wasn't sure if I caught everything or if it was all a crazy fever dream. (I had. It wasn't.) Ferris' work is utterly amazing, both in scope and in form. Her art travels from lurid, R. Crumb-like caricature to realism to pulp horror to scrapey sketched cartoons, and all with a set of regular ol' Bic pens. Just paging through her scenes of late '60s-era Uptown in Chicago blew me away.
My only qualm with the book is that there are so many dang B plots that it was easy to get confused, or have to flip back and remember what was happening with X person. Still, those stories are heartfelt, heartsick, disturbing, and somehow both gorgeous and grotesque. Absolutely recommended, and I can't wait for Book 2.