About This Book

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. Full-color illustrations throughout.

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Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album (Winners)
The Eisner Awards, presented each year at San Diego Comic-Con and named after the cartoonist Will Eisner, are the most prestigious honours in American comics. Best Graphic Album goes to the year’s best new book-length work, and its winners run from Watchmen and The Killing Joke through Blankets, American Born Chinese and Asterios Polyp to Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing Is Monsters. This list collects the winning books by year.

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