Alison Bechdel says: "Once you enter Emil Ferris's spectacular eye-popping magnum opus, there is no turning back. Her werewolf-girl protagonist's spiral bound school notebook is a visual phantasmagoria of neural-pathway altering proportions. Through noir Chicago streetscapes, a freakish but lovingly cross-hatched cast of characters, meticulously envisioned covers of horror comics, and all-around virtuosic drawing chops, the heroine unravels a baroque mystery whose plot pulls you forward as insistently as the images demand that you linger. This is a monster of a book, in the best possible way." 
 I could call this a six-star book. Like another of my six-star books, Tender Morsels, this is dark and layered and haunting. I'm kind of speechless. And it's done in Bic pens. And it's enormous. And it's Volume One. 
 More about the incredible art and backstory: 
 "Ferris began writing and drawing My Favorite Thing Is Monsters after she was bitten by a mosquito that infected her with West Nile virus. The virus left her paralyzed, but eventually she regained some use of her right hand and learned to draw again by duct-taping a quill pen to her hand. Ferris now walks with the help of a cane." 
 http://www.npr.org/2017/03/30/5220343... 
 "Ms. Ferris has worked in a range of media, from animation to painting, but "Monsters," with its rainbow hues, is almost wholly drawn in Bic pen, complemented by Flair markers. She started out drawing it on actual white, lined notebook paper. "But then I started to do it in layers, because it was so hard to make corrections." 
 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/ar...