My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, vol 1

By Emil Ferris

Subjects: Chicago (Ill.) -- Comic books, strips, etc, Investigation, Murder -- Investigation -- Comic books, strips, etc, LGBTQ graphic novels, Girls -- Comic books, strips, etc, Comics & graphic novels, horror, Lambda Literary Awards, Comic books, strips, Girls, Lambda Literary Award Winner, Nineteen sixties -- Comic books, strips, etc, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Murder, Homicide, History, Nineteen sixties

Description: Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen’s investigation takes us back to Anka’s life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge. Full-color illustrations throughout.