My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

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Siodmak fled from Nazi Germany in the ‘30s to escape the growing tide of antisemitism that would give way to genocide. And in “The Wolf Man,” the curse of the werewolf is tied to visions of a pentagram, which bears a striking resemblance to the yellow badges forced on Jews by the Nazis. This “othering” of the monster by society shows deep ties to how the worst of us systemically single out and persecute those we choose to label as inhuman. Lccn 2016946097 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang lb Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.4772 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-1200467 Openlibrary_edition So too, the real monsters in the story have human faces. They call Karen Reyes derogatory and teasing names, they ostracise her, they exclude her from fellowship and comfort. The worst of these monsters is Missy. Missy and Karen Reyes were once best companions, strengthened in their admiration of monsters and their identities as monsters — Missy was a bride of Dracula — until their relationship takes a tragic turn. The girl’s touch, they kiss, and Missy is transformed into a different kind of monster: one who abandons Karen Reyes for the popular girls.

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The story tries to focus on an ostracized 5th grader named Karen who lives in Uptown Chicago with her older brother Diego "Deeze" Reyes, a ladykiller whose love of art has been passed down the family tree, and their single mother, a caring but superstitious lady. A lover of horror magazines and Saturday night creature features, Karen doodles relentlessly and handles rejection by her best friend Missy by envisioning herself as a werewolf. These diversions offer little help as Karen is drawn into the mysterious death of their upstairs neighbor Anka Silverberg, a beguiling Jew who survived the Holocaust only to catch a bullet in her living room. Even at an early age, Anka moved from tragedy to tragedy, growing up in a brothel, forced into prostitution herself, and only able to escape the holocaust by turning to a man who abused her as a child. Karen’s brother Deeze and her mother, while loving, caring people, hide violent secrets, too. It’s a testament to Ferris’ characterization that we can see so many people’s worst sides, yet still understand them as complex people whose beauty shines out from the scars. Emil Ferris’ genre-bending narrative is part horror story, part noir. Karen Reyes makes herself into a detective — donning a trench coat and hat to fulfil the stereotype — when her upstairs neighbour Anka is found dead. Although there is no explicit evidence of foul play, Karen Reyes devotes her time to examine for clues that might support her surmise that Anka was murdered. As an inexperienced sleuth, Karen Reyes patches together a retrospective narrative of Anka’s enigmatic life. Dueben, Alex (December 31, 2017). "Best Comics of 2017: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Already a Classic". Comic Book Resources . Retrieved January 5, 2018. I would not be unhappy at all if this won the graphic novel category. As much as I LOVED Saga vol 7 and went gaga over Monstress vol 2, this one bites as deep or perhaps deeper than the rest.Garner, Dwight; Senior, Jennifer; Sehgal, Parul; Maslin, Janet (December 7, 2017). "Times Critics' Top Books of 2017". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 5, 2018 . Retrieved January 5, 2018.

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My friend also lent me all of his Cronenbergs, which he had referred to as “body horror.” Body horror! I felt that every day! All the movies were subversive and transgressive and vaguely erotic. They gave me an outlet for my own bodily insecurities, as if seeing other bodies destroyed on screen made my own feel lighter. Macdonald, Heidi (March 14, 2017). "My Favorite Thing Is Monsters gets 30,000 second printing". Comics Beat . Retrieved March 2, 2019. More than anything else, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is about slum life in the late '60s and rather than be liberated by imagination, is choking on social blight. Karen goes from fatherless to friendless and is far better off than the broken bodies she meets. In addition to a murdered neighbor, hunger, suicide, incarceration, cancer and the assassination of Martin Luther King are also dealt with. As a read, this is a feel-bad. What I disliked even more than the somber content choices was how grubby and grotesque most of the artwork was. The film monsters don't thrive as a departure from Karen's environment because her neighbors are rendered just as ghoulishly. i could go on and on, but it makes more sense for you to just go read it now and review it better than i have. it's great, and it's only the first part of what is either one or two more books - sources vary. A few hundred years before the Common Era — for the Julian and Gregorian calendars — Aristotle contended that the monster “does not violate nature as such but [is an animal] that exceeds normality.” By the 1500s, essayist Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Lord of Montaigne – one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance – argued that monsters are not unnatural beings, but simply the results of both human ignorance and human imagination. In the mid-twentieth-century, Michel Foucault — French philosopher, historian of ideas, cultural theorist, and literary critic — asserted that the monster exists to ensure the ongoing emergence of difference.

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This has been a hard year for a lot of reasons, and with few exceptions, everyone I know or have talked to says that they have read less. I understand why. My Favorite Thing is Monsters is not a book that can be read lightly. Those seeking escapist fare won’t find it here. This is a book about monsters, but in the book Karen makes an important distinction: “A good monster sometimes gives somebody a fright because they’re weird looking and fangy -- a fact that is beyond their control -- but bad monsters are all about control -- they want the whole world to be scared so that bad monsters can call the shots.” Looking forward to Book Two, Ferris said, “Essentially, Book Two is about how we survive the most difficult things within a broken world, and about how love and art can save us.” There’s something comforting and empowering about becoming a monster. Losing your humanity and all the pain that comes with it when changing into something fierce and strange enough to scare away everything that once terrified us. In the world of Emil Ferris, to be a monster is to be something beautiful in spite of everything that has scarred and broken us. a b c Tumey, Paul (October 28, 2016). "My Favorite Thing Is Monsters". The Comics Journal . Retrieved January 5, 2018. Cavna, Michael (September 16, 2017). "How Emil Ferris became the breakout graphic novelist of the year". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on January 21, 2018 . Retrieved January 5, 2018.

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it’s haunting and it bleeds but it is also celebratory and basically it is everything ever including catshttps://www.moma.org/s/ge/curated_ge/styles/new_objectivity.html#:~:text=The%20New%20Objectivity%20(Neue%20Sachlichkeit,or%20idealistic%20tendencies%20of%20Expressionism. New Objectivity focused on unsentimental reality that often leaned toward the grotesquely satirical as it observed the objective world around the artist. Alongside this approach, many of the faces in the crowds are drawings of strangers that Ferris observed while out in public. And it’s no coincidence that a large portion of Anka’s story takes place in Weimar Germany, which stretched from 1918 to 1933, when Hitler and the Nazis seized power. And last but not least Karen, the werewolf detective girl, one of the great characters of all comics history!