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Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening
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2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Writer
2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Painter/Multimedia Artist
2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Continuing Series
2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Publication for Teens
2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Cover Artist
2018 Harvey Award winner, Book of the Year
2018 Hugo Award winner, Best Graphic Story
2018 British Fantasy Award winner, Best Comic/Graphic Novel
2018, 2016, 2015 Entertainment Weekly's The Best Comic Books of the Year
2018, Newsweek's Best Comic Books of the Year
2018, The Washington Post's 10 Best Graphic Novels of the Year
2018, Barnes & Noble's Best Books of the Year
2018, YALSA's Great Graphic Novels for Teens
2018, Thrillist's Best Comics & Graphic Novels of the Year
2018, Powell's Best Science-Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Graphic Novels of the Year Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900's Asia, in a richly imagined world of art deco-inflected steam punk, MONSTRESS tells the story of a teenage girl who is struggling to survive the trauma of war, and who shares a mysterious psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, a connection that will transform them both and make them the target of both human and otherworldly powers. About the Creators: New York Times bestselling and award-winning writer Marjorie Liu is best known for her fiction and comic books. She teaches comic book writing at MIT, and leads a class on Popular Fiction at the Voices of Our Nation (VONA) workshop. Ms. Liu's extensive work includes the bestselling "Astonishing X-Men" for Marvel Comics, which featured the gay wedding of X-Man Northstar and was subsequently nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for outstanding media images of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Prior to writing full-time, Liu was a lawyer. She currently resides in Boston. Sana Takeda is an illustrator and comic book artist who was born in Niigata, and now resides in Tokyo, Japan. At age 20 she started out as a 3D CGI designer for SEGA, a Japanese video game company, and became a freelance artist when she was 25. She is still an artist, and has worked on titles such as "X-23" and "Ms. Marvel" for Marvel Comics, and is an illustrator for trading card games in Japan.
2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Painter/Multimedia Artist
2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Continuing Series
2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Publication for Teens
2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Cover Artist
2018 Harvey Award winner, Book of the Year
2018 Hugo Award winner, Best Graphic Story
2018 British Fantasy Award winner, Best Comic/Graphic Novel
2018, 2016, 2015 Entertainment Weekly's The Best Comic Books of the Year
2018, Newsweek's Best Comic Books of the Year
2018, The Washington Post's 10 Best Graphic Novels of the Year
2018, Barnes & Noble's Best Books of the Year
2018, YALSA's Great Graphic Novels for Teens
2018, Thrillist's Best Comics & Graphic Novels of the Year
2018, Powell's Best Science-Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Graphic Novels of the Year Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900's Asia, in a richly imagined world of art deco-inflected steam punk, MONSTRESS tells the story of a teenage girl who is struggling to survive the trauma of war, and who shares a mysterious psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, a connection that will transform them both and make them the target of both human and otherworldly powers. About the Creators: New York Times bestselling and award-winning writer Marjorie Liu is best known for her fiction and comic books. She teaches comic book writing at MIT, and leads a class on Popular Fiction at the Voices of Our Nation (VONA) workshop. Ms. Liu's extensive work includes the bestselling "Astonishing X-Men" for Marvel Comics, which featured the gay wedding of X-Man Northstar and was subsequently nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for outstanding media images of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Prior to writing full-time, Liu was a lawyer. She currently resides in Boston. Sana Takeda is an illustrator and comic book artist who was born in Niigata, and now resides in Tokyo, Japan. At age 20 she started out as a 3D CGI designer for SEGA, a Japanese video game company, and became a freelance artist when she was 25. She is still an artist, and has worked on titles such as "X-23" and "Ms. Marvel" for Marvel Comics, and is an illustrator for trading card games in Japan.
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Liu, Marjorie
- ISBN: 9781632157096
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 10.10 x 0.60
- Number Of Pages: 192
- Publication Year: 2016
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Beautiful artistry coupled with a haunting story...
Isla G. - 2 years 6 months agoMonstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda is an enthralling read coupled with beautifully dark imagery. Liu crafts a story about a young woman who is looking to find out the truth about herself in a world embroiled in a battle of wills between old magic versus new magic. This book has it all, witches, inner demons, struggles for power and an adorable cat sidekick.
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A Fantasy Unfurled in Layers
Andrew H. - 3 years 8 months agoMonstress is a comic series that constantly pops up as recommended when looking for new issues of my favorite runs, so when I got the chance to read this first volume I took it. The thing that grabbed me immediately was the art in this book. Wow. I mean WOW! As a lover of fantasy and intricate artwork, this is some of the best I have seen in a comic. The dark tones of the world are reflected perfectly in the art style. The amount of variety in character design and the feel of the world adds a layer to the story that builds the creepy mystery of it. The story itself follows a teenage girl caught in the middle of a class war of sorts between normal humans and humans with animal-like qualities. The trauma of war is not the only burden she carries however as all events slowly become clear through the course of the book. This is not a series to be missed by fans of other series such as Saga or Locke and Key.
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The horrors hidden within...
Jason W. - 8 years 1 month agoFrom the moment I unwrapped this gift, the cover filled me with curiosity. Asian art deco blends with art nouveau and then meets up with a little industrial steampunk for an eye-catching design, and that's just the background. This story picks up in the midst of the aftermath of a devastating war between Arcanics, who are human-animal crossbreeds, and the so-called normal humans. Human witches still use the Arcanics that are still being hunted and captured as resources for their magic: maiming, dismembering and killing them in the cruelest fashions. Maika Halfwolf uses their magical greed against them and gets herself caught as a means to sneak into the innermost compound of a higher up witch on a quest for information and vengeance. Dark, violent, passionate, twisted, and so very compelling. A primo gift and I can't wait to find the next volume.
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