Emil Ferris
1962 (Chicago)
Living in : Chicago
Working in : Chicago
With I love monsters, it's an 800-page graphic novel by a 56-year-old unknown, Emil Ferris, which is a runaway success and whose film rights have been bought by Sam Mendes. A diary of a prodigious artist, the first volume, worthy of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, is a song of innocence and experience, a hallucinated encyclopedia of art history and tears. Under the guise of telling the story of Karen Reyes, a ten-year-old who thinks she's a werewolf and investigates the suicide of her beautiful Jewish neighbor Anka Silverberg, I Love Monsters reveals the violence of Nazi Germany as much as it does that of Chicago in the 1960s. This miraculous opus is also a dazzling affirmation of the right to be different and the freedom to be whatever one wants.
Emmanuel Dayde
Living in : Chicago
Working in : Chicago
With I love monsters, it's an 800-page graphic novel by a 56-year-old unknown, Emil Ferris, which is a runaway success and whose film rights have been bought by Sam Mendes. A diary of a prodigious artist, the first volume, worthy of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, is a song of innocence and experience, a hallucinated encyclopedia of art history and tears. Under the guise of telling the story of Karen Reyes, a ten-year-old who thinks she's a werewolf and investigates the suicide of her beautiful Jewish neighbor Anka Silverberg, I Love Monsters reveals the violence of Nazi Germany as much as it does that of Chicago in the 1960s. This miraculous opus is also a dazzling affirmation of the right to be different and the freedom to be whatever one wants.
Emmanuel Dayde