Week 10: Reading the Multimodal Narrative Part Two
The second comic book read for this week is My Favorite Things is Monsters by Emil Ferris. This novel is about a young girl named Karen Reyes and her investigation of the death of her of her neighbor in 1960's Chicago.
I found it very inspiring to read about Ferris and her background story before diving into the graphic novel. Reading about her struggles with her being paralyzed and how/ what helped her overcome it made reading the graphic novel much to intriguing and inspiring. You can definitely see the hard work she put into this.
As far as her artist voice goes, her work definitely is very unique. From her strong skill set with portraiture to her loose line work, we can see how well her style fits in with the story being told. We can feel/ get a sense of the authenticity in the artwork that helps us readers to connect with the story. It is as if we are reading from someone's personal journal. Overall, this is a great inspiring read.
I found it very inspiring to read about Ferris and her background story before diving into the graphic novel. Reading about her struggles with her being paralyzed and how/ what helped her overcome it made reading the graphic novel much to intriguing and inspiring. You can definitely see the hard work she put into this.
As far as her artist voice goes, her work definitely is very unique. From her strong skill set with portraiture to her loose line work, we can see how well her style fits in with the story being told. We can feel/ get a sense of the authenticity in the artwork that helps us readers to connect with the story. It is as if we are reading from someone's personal journal. Overall, this is a great inspiring read.
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