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My favorite thing is monsters. Book one / Emil Ferris.
Van Pelt Library PN6727.F4646 M95 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ferris, Emil, author, illustrator.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Girls--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Girls.
- Murder--Investigation--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Murder.
- Nineteen sixties--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Nineteen sixties.
- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Murder--Investigation.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Comic books, strips, etc--United States.
- Monsters--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Graphic novels.
- Graphic books.
- Detective comics (documents)
- Horror comics.
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- Edition:
- First Fantagraphics books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle, Washington : Fantagraphics Books, 2016.
- Summary:
- "Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late 1960s Chicago, and narrated by 10-year-old Karen Reyes, Monsters is told through a fictional graphic diary employing the iconography of B-movie horror imagery and pulp monster magazines. As the precocious Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her beautiful and enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, we watch the interconnected and fascinating stories of those around her unfold"--Front cover flap.
- Notes:
- Lambda Literary LGBTQ Award for Graphic Novels, Winner 2018.
- Lambda Literary Awards - LGBTQ Graphic Novel, Winner, 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781606999592
- 1606999591
- 9781683960195
- 168396019X
- OCLC:
- 940362149
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