Extra Issues – Fantagraphics #4: My Favorite Thing is Monsters (2017) & Monsters (2021)

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Extra Issues

By Charlotte Fierro & Zack Deane

61 episodes

3 weeks ago

Extra Issues is a comics podcast & reading club dedicated to covering a wide variety of comic book styles, themes, and creators! In this My Marvelous Year spinoff, hosts Zack and Charlotte choose a topic and then choose and discuss a selection of comics within that topic. Hop in anywhere and join the club!

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Extra Issues – Fantagraphics #4: My Favorite Thing is Monsters (2017) & Monsters (2021)

Extra Issues

2 hours 7 minutes 27 seconds

1 year ago

Extra Issues – Fantagraphics #4: My Favorite Thing is Monsters (2017) & Monsters (2021)

Zackula, Charlacabra, and Tiffany “Blah!”-bb are covering two monstrous graphic novels:
– My Favorite Thing is Monsters (2017) by Emil Ferris
– Monsters (2021) by Barry Windsor Smith

Topics discussed:
– How much does the authorial vs. character voice matter to the success of My Favorite Thing is Monsters?
– Is Monsters a genre work or literary work? Both? Neither?
– What do both these books have in common besides their titles? More than you think!
Upcoming episodes in our Fantagraphics miniseries:
– Black Hole/ Dementia 21
– Love & Rockets (Gilbert Hernandez)
– Love and Rockets Library Editions:
– Heartbreak Soup
– Human Diastrophism
– Beyond Palomar

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