Monstress Book One
Various Artists author Ray Fenwick author Marjorie Liu author Richard Marschall editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Image Comics
Published:9th Jul '19
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2018 Eisner Award winner, BestWriter
2018 Eisner Award winner, BestPainter/Multimedia Artist
2018 Eisner Awardwinner, Best Continuing Series
2018 EisnerAward winner, Best Publication forTeens
2018 Eisner Award winner, Best CoverArtist
2018 Harvey Award winner, Book of theYear
2018 Hugo Award winner, Best GraphicStory
2018 British Fantasy Award winner,Best Comic/Graphic Novel
2018, 2016, 2015Entertainment Weekly's The Best Comic Books of theYear
2018, Newsweek's Best ComicBooks of the Year
2018, The WashingtonPost's 10 Best Graphic Novels of theYear
2018, Barnes & Noble's Best Booksof the Year
2018, YALSA's Great GraphicNovels for Teens
2018, Thrillist'sBest Comics & Graphic Novels of theYear
2018, Powell's Best Science-Fiction,Fantasy, Horror, and Graphic Novels of theYear
The richly imagined world ofMONSTRESS is an alternate matriarchal 1900s Asia, with an art deco-infusedsteampunk aesthetic that's brimming with arcane dangers. Within it, a teenagegirl struggles to overcome the trauma of war, a task that's made all the moredifficult by her mysterious psychic link to an eldritch monster of tremendouspower—a connection that will transform them both, and place them in thecrosshairs of both human and otherworldlypowers.
Creator/writer Marjorie Liu (who madehistory as the first woman to win an Eisner Award for Best Writer) andcreator/artist Sana Takeda present a deluxe, oversized hardcover edition oftheir beloved breakout comic in MONSTRESS BOOK ONE. Collecting the first 18issues of the New York Times bestselling series, this massive edition features astriking new cover, as well as special extras, including never-before-seensketches, script pages, and more for over 500 pages of award-winning content.
"Feels like a battle cry." —Vox.com
"Liu's accomplishment is impressive. She's created characters who feellarger than life, but whose motivations and values are almost alwaysobscure.” —NPR
“If you want big, beautiful, terrifying, violent magic, Monstress isyour next favorite comic.” —Cosmopolitan
“...as ambitious as George R.R. Martin or J.R.R. Tolkien...”—The Los Angeles Review of Books
"Takeda’s visuals recall realistic, gritty manga such as Lone Wolfand Cub, with magic and monsters to rival those of Hayao Miyazaki’sfilms.” —Publishers Weekly
"Intricate and detailed, with a definite manga influence, Takeda's artworkcreates a lush and dangerous world for Liu's equally dangerous characters. Thework is infused with feminist themes; almost all of the characters arestrong—and deadly—women.” —School LibraryJournal
ISBN: 9781534312326
Dimensions: 279mm x 178mm x 25mm
Weight: 1837g
528 pages