You don’t have to wander far to find the ghosts in Chicago, graphic novelist Emil Ferris says. Between the luxury high-rises, upscale grocery chains and other monetized monstrosities of gentrification ...

There are two types of monsters: Ones that simply appear scary and ones that are scary by their cruelty. Karen Reyes is the former, but what does that make her troubled older brother, Deeze? Emil ...

In 2017, Emil Ferris’s debut graphic novel My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book One (Fantagraphics Books) came out of nowhere to take the world by storm, racking up huge international sales and ...

5:00-6:00 pm: Caitlin McGurk (Tell Me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins) + Janice Shapiro (Honoria: A Fortuitous Friendship) Saturday, July 26th: 11:00 am-12:00 pm: Mathew Klickstein (Daisy Goes to the ...

There is a ghostliness shrouding Uptown. Even in daylight, its presence lurks and lingers, like at Graceland Cemetery, home to the sculpture Eternal Silence, whose hooded figure is said to foretell ...

These four graphic novels tell compelling stories, from a girl navigating life’s chaos through horror comics to a compilation of often misunderstood comic strips and from the meta-comedic struggles of ...

Emil Ferris won the lottery seven years ago. She knows this. She didn’t win the Illinois Lotto. She won the artist’s lottery, which costs far more than $2 to play, and no matter if you are a pianist ...

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There are two types of monsters: Ones that simply appear scary and ones that are scary by their cruelty. Karen Reyes is the former, but what does that make her troubled older brother, Deeze? Emil ...