Book description
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…
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Monstress is an awful lot of things: An epic fantasy that confronts the horrors of modern war; a work of fusion that marries Western and Eastern aesthetics and the epic scale of George R. R. Martin with the cosmic and body horror of Junji Ito; an incredible trove of beautiful visual art; a stage for women of all kinds, young and old, beautiful and monstrous, weak and powerful, with and without shark heads; and a story about a girl coming to grips with a dark family legacy and what it means for her place in a bloody, painful world.
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