“You’re not afraid of a line drawing, are you?”
An interview with Emil Ferris
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22003183 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Whitney Porter (Cleveland Institute of Art), Vera J Camden (Kent State University, corresponding author), Valentino L Zullo (Ursuline College) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 126-144 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2150-4857 • E-ISSN: 2150-4865 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21504857.2025.2456188 |
| OpenAlex | W4407183686 |
| Language | EN |
In the summer of 2024, we sat down with Eisner Award-Winning comics creator and self-proclaimed monster, Emil Ferris. After the incredible success of My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book One in 2017, the much anticipated My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book Two was released in May 2024. In this interview, we revisited Whitney and Emil’s 2020 interview, and Emil shared how her world has changed over the past few years. This conversation considers the haunting quality of grief as well as the challenge of humanising our idols. Emil shares the important role that mythology, art, and narrative have played in her career via figures like Medusa and Judith. We considered her exploration of queer characters in Book Two and discussed comics form as a vehicle for traumatic retellings. All these topics were discussed in terms of how monsters can help us to navigate and understand ourselves and our world
Art · Art history · Cartoonist · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Visual arts · Art, Technology, and Culture · Law · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |