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Monstress Volume 1: Awakening

Marjorie Liu author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Image Comics

Published:19th Jul '16

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Monstress Volume 1: Awakening cover

2018 Eisner Award winner, BestWriter
2018 Eisner Award winner, BestPainter/Multimedia Artist
2018 EisnerAward winner, Best Continuing Series
2018Eisner Award winner, Best Publication forTeens
2018 Eisner Award winner, Best CoverArtist
2018 Harvey Award winner, Book ofthe Year
2018 Hugo Award winner, BestGraphic Story
2018 British Fantasy Awardwinner, Best Comic/Graphic Novel
2018,2016, 2015 Entertainment 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

Set in an alternate matriarchal1900'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 thetrauma of war, and who shares a mysterious psychic link with a monster oftremendous power, a connection that will transform them both and make them thetarget of both human and otherworldlypowers.

About theCreators:

New York Times bestselling andaward-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 atthe Voices of Our Nation (VONA) workshop. Ms. Liu's extensive work includes thebestselling "Astonishing X-Men" for Marvel Comics, which featured the gaywedding of X-Man Northstar and was subsequently nominated for a GLAAD MediaAward for outstanding media images of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendercommunity. Prior to writing full-time, Liu was a lawyer. She currently residesin Boston.

Sana Takeda is an illustrator andcomic book artist who was born in Niigata, and now resides in Tokyo, Japan. Atage 20 she started out as a 3D CGI designer for SEGA, a Japanese video gamecompany, 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, andis an illustrator for trading card games in Japan.

“If you want big, beautiful, terrifying, violent magic, Monstress isyour next favorite comic.” -Cosmopolitan


NPR -- Gaudy beauty and extravagant horror twinearound each other, as elegant as their subjects' sinuous hair and garments, inthe remarkable comic Monstress. Liu's accomplishment is impressive. She'screated characters who feel larger than life, but whose motivations and valuesare almost always obscure.


"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

"World-building on a scale rare in mainstream comics." —TheHollywood Reporter

"Liu's accomplishment is impressive. She's created characters who feellarger than life, but whose motivations and values are almost alwaysobscure.” —NPR

“Filled to the brim with awesome.” —Kirkus Reviews

ISBN: 9781632157096

Dimensions: 254mm x 178mm x 25mm

Weight: 426g

192 pages