My Favorite Thing is Monsters
My Favorite Thing is Monsters is a very unique "comic" if you will. The comic shows a 10-year-old; Karen Reyes, who investigates the murder of her neighbor.
Emil Ferris, the author has a unique story of herself, she received the West Nile and became paralysed at age 40. She lost all use of her right hand, the hand she used for freelance work before she got paralyzed. Ferris grew up in the 1960s Chicago, where she currently still lives. I believe she created this book My Favorite Thing is Monsters a little like a sketchbook diary. A sketchbook diary in the sense that it seems to be a very personal book, about her childhood and her past. She manages to cover a few important topics in the book like race and class of the people. Starting in 2010, Ferris took 6 years to complete this comic, from start to finish.
I found it interesting on how the comic has different styles of drawing within the drawings. I believe this might be because some frames are from the perspective of Karen. Karen is a 'monster', or somebody that doesn't like their own look. But she sees this entire world full of 'monsters' or semi misformed people. The occasional frame comes in where the character is introduced in a hyper-realistic drawing, in which they look perfectly normal. This shows the drawings are 'narrated' from two different POVs. I believe the drawings make the storyline easier to follow, to see what she sees, to view her world from her perspective. As they are drawn around the text, it looks more like a sketchbook like I mentioned before. Therefore, we as artists relate, we sketch/doodle all the time, out of boredom, or creativity. This style portrays that it was a very personal text, in which she took the time to express it in another way.
Emil Ferris, the author has a unique story of herself, she received the West Nile and became paralysed at age 40. She lost all use of her right hand, the hand she used for freelance work before she got paralyzed. Ferris grew up in the 1960s Chicago, where she currently still lives. I believe she created this book My Favorite Thing is Monsters a little like a sketchbook diary. A sketchbook diary in the sense that it seems to be a very personal book, about her childhood and her past. She manages to cover a few important topics in the book like race and class of the people. Starting in 2010, Ferris took 6 years to complete this comic, from start to finish.
I found it interesting on how the comic has different styles of drawing within the drawings. I believe this might be because some frames are from the perspective of Karen. Karen is a 'monster', or somebody that doesn't like their own look. But she sees this entire world full of 'monsters' or semi misformed people. The occasional frame comes in where the character is introduced in a hyper-realistic drawing, in which they look perfectly normal. This shows the drawings are 'narrated' from two different POVs. I believe the drawings make the storyline easier to follow, to see what she sees, to view her world from her perspective. As they are drawn around the text, it looks more like a sketchbook like I mentioned before. Therefore, we as artists relate, we sketch/doodle all the time, out of boredom, or creativity. This style portrays that it was a very personal text, in which she took the time to express it in another way.
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