On sale date: August 26, 2025
Both volumes of Emil Ferris’s beloved graphic masterpiece and worldwide sensation, collected in a custom slipcase.
Taking the form of the fictional graphic diary of ten-year-old self-identifying ‘monster’ Karen Reyes, and set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters has become a worldwide sensation since Book One announced Emil Ferris as one of fiction’s world-class storytellers in 2017 and 2024’s Book Two triumphantly concluded the epic graphic novel.
Influenced by B-movie horror, classical painting, and pulp monster magazine iconography, Monsters tells the story of Karen as she tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor. While the interconnected stories of those around her unfold, Karen struggles with the recent death of her mother while questioning her own sexuality and identity. When Karen's investigation takes us back to Anka's life in Nazi Germany, the personal, the political, the past, and the present collide.
Ferris’s exhilarating cast of characters come to life in this landmark work of graphic fiction that has captivated readers of all ages around the world with its story of love, friendship, and empowerment. And now, My Favorite Thing is Monsters is available in one complete package for the first time!
Praise
"Emil Ferris is one of the most important comics artists of our time." — Art Spiegelman
"A thrilling and surprisingly profound novel." — Chicago Tribune
"One of the most profound, ambitious, and accomplished creative works to appear in any medium this decade." — Forbes
"The novel tackles race, gender, and what it means to be 'monstrous' in big and small ways. It could not be more relevant to today's climate." — Mother Jones
"No one has ever made a comic like Emil Ferris's assured, superhumanly ambitious two-part graphic novel.… It threatens not merely to exceed established standards of excellence, but to set new ones." — The Guardian
Specs
- Pages
- 828
- Format
- Paperback / Softback
- Color
- Full-color
- Dimensions
- 8.125" × 10.75"
- ISBN-13
- 9798875000997