Emil Ferris’s début graphic novel, “My Favorite Thing Is Monsters,” published when she was fifty-five, was a breakout hit, garnering praise from critics and peers for its intricately cross-hatched drawings, its gripping plot, and its marriage of gothic-pulp aesthetics and sharp social commentary. The story is presented as the diary of Karen Reyes, a ten-year-old girl growing up in the politically volatile Chicago of the nineteen-sixties. On four hundred and sixteen pages of lined paper, Karen investigates the murder of her neighbor Anka, a beautiful and mysterious Holocaust survivor. With masterly ballpoint drawings, Ferris weaves together history, comic books, and horror to echo Karen’s sense of herself as a monster. When the book hit the shelves in 2017, shortly after Donald Trump’s I...
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