Title: My favorite thing is monsters /
Authors: Ferris, Emil
Year: 2016
Subjects: Holocaust Comic books, strips, etc.; Holocaust.; Girls Comic books, strips, etc.; Homicide Comic books, strips, etc.; Murder Investigation Comic books, strips, etc.; Nineteen sixties Comic books, strips, etc.; Nineteen sixties; Murder Investigation; Homicide; Girls; Chicago (Ill.) Comic books, strips, etc.; Illinois Chicago
Abstract: "Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, and narrated by 10-year-old Karen Reyes, Monsters is told is told through a fictional graphic diary employing the iconography of B-movie horror imagery and pulp monster magazines. As the precocious Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her beautiful and enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, we watch the interconnected and fascinating stories of those around her unfold"--Publisher.