On the surface, it’s a monologue by young Karen Reyes, obsessed with monster movies and visualizing herself as a werewolf girl in order to rationalize the difference in her that the world perceives and acts on.
So sprawling is Ferris’ book that it’s actually hard to pin down the story in any satisfying way - that is, a way that actually captures what the book is about. It’s her first graphic novel and given the reception, not her last, and you can only hope that the quality that makes this book so mesmerizing - simply put, that of an energetic outsider - is retained.
Ferris is a Chicago-based artist who had worked in illustration and toy design, but after a debilitating battle with West Nile Virus, went back to art school and redirected her energy to this graphic novel that reads like a memoir, though my understanding is that it is at best based on her childhood, with a biography hidden inside. It’s fair to say that Emil Ferris’ sprawling My Favorite Thing Is Monsters - volume one of a two volume work - came out of absolutely nowhere for many people.
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