![]() ![]() Welsch from Harriet the Spy, Karen dresses as a detective and sets out to investigate who killed Anka. Recalling another iconic coded queer child, Harriet M. Karen, however, is convinced that Anka was murdered. Karen’s beloved neighbor, a Holocaust survivor named Anka, dies mysteriously in what is ruled a suicide. ![]() Karen’s search for clues to her identity is one of several mysteries woven into the overarching whodunit story at the center of My Favorite Thing is Monsters. She draws herself as a werewolf, chasing after beautiful women while on the run from mobs of villagers. While most girls she knows seek out models in the glossy pages of teen magazines, Karen begins to “let herself know what she knows”: her queer identity, through finding herself in the demons, vampires, and other monster figures she finds in both camp horror and high art. The text is made up of the pages of Karen’s notebook, where the aspiring artist records her thoughts alongside careful renderings of the images she encounters around her, from the walls of the Art Institute in her Chicago home to the covers of the pulp comics that she collects. ![]() “Sometimes you don’t let yourself know what you know,” writes Karen Reyes, the 10-year-old narrator of Emil Ferris’s debut graphic novel, My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Volume 1. ‘My Favorite Thing is Monsters’ by Emil Ferris ![]()
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