Description

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.

Publisher Review

"World-building on a scale rare in mainstream comics." -The Hollywood Reporter "Feels like a battle cry." -Vox.com "Takeda's visuals recall realistic, gritty manga such as Lone Wolf and Cub, with magic and monsters to rival those of Hayao Miyazaki's films." -Publishers Weekly "If you want big, beautiful, terrifying, violent magic, Monstress is your next favorite comic." -Cosmopolitan "Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda take eastern and western comics storytelling traditions and styles, and create something wholly their own and remarkable: a beautifully told story of magic and fear, inhumanity and exploitation, of what it means to be human and the monsters we all carry inside us. Also, some of the best cats in comics. A delight." -Neil Gaiman "This is stuff that demands to be explained and dares you to turn the page." -The Rainbow Hub