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Author:

Ferris, Emil, illustrator. illustrator.

Title:

My favorite thing is monsters / Emil Ferris.

Edition:

Second Fantagraphics Books edition.

Publisher:

Fantagraphics Books,

Copyright Date:

May 2017

Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Subject:

Murder--Investigation--Comic books, strips, etc.
Nineteen sixties--Comic books, strips, etc.
World War, 1939-1945--Comic books, strips, etc.
Graphic novels.
Chicago (Ill.)--Comic books, strips, etc.
Detective and mystery fiction.

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.

ISBN:

1606999591
9781606999592 (volume 1 : softcover)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)973983408

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

NYPE343 -- Charles City Public Library (Charles City)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

SIPD314 -- James Kennedy Public Library (Dyersville)

TFPI826 -- Scott County Library System (Eldridge)

GHPD771 -- Grimes Public Library (Grimes)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

CYPF706 -- Musser Public Library (Muscatine)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)