![]() The first volume was published by Fantagraphics on February 14, 2017. ![]() The process of creating the book was difficult, with Ferris working long hours, living frugally, and encountering publishing setbacks, such as a cancelation by one publisher and the temporary seizure of the first volume's printing at the Panama Canal. The work draws on Ferris's childhood growing up in Chicago, and her love of monsters and horror media. She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for writing and began the graphic novel to help her recover in 2010, taking six years to create 700 pages. Ferris started working on the graphic novel after contracting West Nile virus and becoming paralyzed at age forty. It portrays a young girl named Karen Reyes investigating the death of her neighbor in 1960s Chicago. ![]() My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the debut graphic novel by American writer Emil Ferris. The cover of the first volume of the graphic novel, featuring Karen's neighbor Anka ![]()
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