This is a book club episode. In it, Travis and Amanda will discuss and analyze the first half of My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris. You should expect full “spoilers,” discussions of rhetorical elements, and celebrations / critiques of style and substance.
From the cover: “Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of the late 1960s Chicago and narrated by 10-year-old Karen Reyes, MY FAVORITE THING IS MONSTERS is told through a fictional graphic diary employing the iconography of B-movie horror imagery and pulp monster magazines…Rendered in a kaleidoscopically and breathtakingly virtuosic visual style that combines panel sequences and montage, this is a revelatory work of striking originality and unnerving power.”