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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO — Emil Ferris warned me that what she was about to do would draw some attention. “I’m in imagination land so much, it’s hard to come out of it,” said the celebrated graphic novelist when we ...

The graphic novelist Emil Ferris wants to show me the first paintings she ever fell in love with. It’s early April, and we’re visiting the Art Institute of Chicago, a place that has outsize importance ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This cover image released by Fantagraphics Books shows "My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Book 2" by Emil Ferris. (Fantagraphics ...

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 ...

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