WHAT I LIKE ARE MONSTERS

Chicago, late 1960s. Ten-year-old Karen Reyes loves ghosts, vampires and other undead. She even imagines herself to be a werewolf: more easier, here, to be a monster than to be a woman. The day of the Valentine's Day, his neighbor, the beautiful Anka Silverberg, commits suicide with a bullet in the heart. But Karen doesn't believe it and decides to elucidate this mystery. She will quickly discover that between Anka's past in Nazi Germany, her own neighborhood ready to ignite and the secrets lurking in the shadows of its daily life, Monsters, good or bad, are beings like any other, ambiguous, tortured and fascinating. Diary of a prodigious artist, Me, what I love, it's the monsters is a brilliant kaleidoscope of energy and emotions, the beautifully told story of a fascinating child. In this work masterful, at once an investigation, a family drama and a historical testimony, Emil Ferris weaves an infinitely personal link between a fierce expressionism, the hatching of a Crumb and the universe of Maurice Sendak. In 2002, Emil Ferris (born 1962 in Chicago), a single mother and illustrator, earns his living by designing toys and participating in film production of entertainment. At his fortieth birthday party with friends, She gets bitten by a mosquito and doesn't come to her senses for three years. weeks later, in hospital. He was diagnosed with meningoencephalitis: She is struck by one of the most serious forms of West Nile syndrome Western. Doctors tell her she will probably never be able to walk. Worse still, his right hand, the one that allows him to draw, is not no longer able to hold a pen. While she no longer sees any future for herself, the strong women at her side encourage her – the therapist in charge of her rehabilitation, her friends and her daughter –, and Emil decides to fight. She goes so far as to tape a pen to her hand to draw, which takes her a crazy amount of time... but with perseverance, she is improving. Emil decides to make a fresh start and enrolls in the Chicago Art Institute, from which she will leave, with her diploma, with a determined step. It is at It was at this time that she began writing her graphic novel. It would take her six years to complete this 800-page work. After 48 rejections, the independent publisher Fantagraphics accepts the manuscript. Following some incredible delivery problems, the first volume of Moi, What I Like Is Monsters is released in February 2017. Overnight, Emil Ferris is propelled among the sacred "monsters" of comics. As the reprints continue to come in, it is unanimous: this is a exceptional work.