My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
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Fantagraphics 2017
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Description
In this debut, which takes the form of a fictional graphic diary, a 10-year-old girl tries to solve a murder.
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 neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen's investigation takes us back to Anka's life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge.
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Street Date:
02/14/2017
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781683966197
ASIN:
B01D5H511C
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APA Citation (style guide)
Emil Ferris. (2017). My Favorite Thing Is Monsters. Fantagraphics.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Emil Ferris. 2017. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters. Fantagraphics.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters. Fantagraphics, 2017.
MLA Citation (style guide)Emil Ferris. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters. Fantagraphics, 2017.
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