MAC'S BACKS COMIX HAPPY HOUR DISCUSSES MY FAVORITE THING IS MONSTERS

Friday, November 1, 2019 - 6:30pm to 7:30pm

Mac's Backs Comix Happy Hour discusses My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris.

Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen's investigation takes us back to Anka's life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge.

"This extraordinary book has instantly rocketed Ferris into the graphic novel elite alongside Art Spiegelman, Alison Bechdel and Chris Ware. You see, she's produced something rare, a page-turning story whose pages are so brilliantly drawn you don't want to turn them."--Terry Gross

"Emil Ferris is one of the most important comics artists of our time."--Art Spiegelman

Emil Ferris grew up Chicago during the turbulent 1960s, where she still lives, and is consequently a devotee of all things monstrous and horrific. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from The School of the Art Institute.

The book will be available at Mac's Backs or through our website, www.macsbacks.com at the 20% book club discount.

Event address: 
1820 Coventry Rd.
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
Books: 
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters By Emil Ferris Cover Image
$39.99
ISBN: 9781606999592
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Fantagraphics - February 14th, 2017