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Author:

Ferris, Emil, illustrator. illustrator.

Title:

My favorite thing is monsters / Emil Ferris.

Edition:

First Fantagraphics Books edition.

Publisher:

Fantagraphics Books,

Copyright Date:

2016-

Description:

volumes (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.

Subject:

Holocaust--Fiction.--Fiction.
Girls--Fiction.--Fiction.
Homicide--Fiction.--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.--Fiction.
Nineteen sixties--Fiction.--Fiction.
Chicago (Ill.)--20th century--Fiction.--Fiction.
Graphic novels.
Comics (Graphic works)
Comics (Graphic works).
Graphic novels.

Summary:

"Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, and narrated by 10-year-old Karen Reyes, Monsters is told 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" -- Publisher.

ISBN:

1606999591
9781606999592

Locations:

GFPE771 -- Altoona Public Library (Altoona)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

KJPF566 -- Fort Madison Public Library (Fort Madison)

XHPD657 -- Glenwood Public Library (Glenwood)

YCPD572 -- Hiawatha Public Library (Hiawatha)

UGPF911 -- Indianola Public Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

KAPF566 -- Keokuk Public Library (Keokuk)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

WFPC115 -- Newell Public Library (Newell)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)