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'Every Full Moon We Can Howl At Is A Victory,' Says Emil Ferris

Ferris' graphic novel My Favorite Thing Is Monsters won three Eisners, the highest award in mainstream comics, and it celebrates the things that make us all monsters — because monsters are cool.
Emil Ferris and her semi-autobiographical creation Karen Reyes, the star of <em>My Favorite Thing is Monsters.</em>

Writer and artist Emil Ferris won three Eisner Awards — the highest award in mainstream comics — for her graphic novel My Favorite Thing is Monsters. It's a huge tome, full of inky, scratchy drawings done in ballpoint pen, ranging from loose sketches to lovingly rendered covers of pulp horror magazines.

Ferris says that when she started — her first graphic novel — she had no idea it would be so massive. "It just sort of came out

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