My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

I just finished Hugo Graphic-nominated My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, read over the course of today, and WOW, it's been a long time since I read a graphic work that blew me away like this. The ART, oh my god the ART, the main conceit, the way the flashback story fits into the present day story... this is an *amazing* work, highly recommended if you're interested in comics as a medium or in powerful, complicated stories in general. Things you should know: what we got in the packet/what's available right now is the first half of a 700 page story; the second half seems to be coming out in August. I read it in scroll so I could make it big enough to read the words easily, but am going back through again in two-page mode to look at the layouts/spreads. Also I think we may be missing a page somewhere near the end. :( Also heavy-duty content notes which I am going to put behind a cut: ( Read more... )

About the only thing I can compare this to is Maus, although the art is maybe more Stuck Rubber Baby.

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ETA to name the author: Emil Ferris, this is her first work and she worked on it for 15 years (!).