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A review by nancyadelman
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris
3.0
10 year old Karen likes monsters. She imagines herself as a werewolf. She draws in her notebook to pass the time, frequently monsters and ghouls. When one of her neighbors, a holocaust survivor, dies suddenly, she decides to investigate her death. She keeps her notes in her diary, the same notebook that she draws in. Along the way, she learns how the past and the present come together.
I wanted to like this story so much. And I could not read it in one sitting like most other graphic novels because of it's size. I felt like the story kept drifting off on these tangents, and I kept getting lost, and having to circle back and re-read parts and figure out what I missed and then go on again for a while, only to find yet another tangent. It was exhausting. Karen is a precocious but lovable character. She always depicts herself as a dog in a trench coat, as a werewolf private investigator. She lives with her mother and her much older brother, DZ. There is a fair amount of sex shown on the page with DZ and his lady friends, and I think some occasional use of alcohol too. The artwork alone is really great. The artistry is really incredible. She goes from a simple black and white comic, to a full color comic, to a full-on depiction of multiple major paintings, including Sunday in the Park by Seurat which she portrayed in a pointillist type, just like the painting itself. I am giving this book three stars just for the artwork.
I wanted to like this story so much. And I could not read it in one sitting like most other graphic novels because of it's size. I felt like the story kept drifting off on these tangents, and I kept getting lost, and having to circle back and re-read parts and figure out what I missed and then go on again for a while, only to find yet another tangent. It was exhausting. Karen is a precocious but lovable character. She always depicts herself as a dog in a trench coat, as a werewolf private investigator. She lives with her mother and her much older brother, DZ. There is a fair amount of sex shown on the page with DZ and his lady friends, and I think some occasional use of alcohol too. The artwork alone is really great. The artistry is really incredible. She goes from a simple black and white comic, to a full color comic, to a full-on depiction of multiple major paintings, including Sunday in the Park by Seurat which she portrayed in a pointillist type, just like the painting itself. I am giving this book three stars just for the artwork.