What drew me to this comic was it's unique artistic style, it's something that I have never seen before. The book's illustrations look as if they were all drawn with ball point pen. On top of that the pages they were drawn on were lined notebook paper and the occasional math test. This really sold the gimmick of giving off the appearance and believe ability of the comic being the personal journal of the protagonist. It's something that I personally have never seen before and it drew me in because of how immersed it made me feel with the story. Knowing that the story is nothing but fiction, it still had a realistic and believable quality to it that had me completely immersed. I love sketchy, loose style of the line-work and on the medium it was drawn on.
My Favorite Things is Monsters is something that is not so mundane like a regular Archie or Marvel comic. Both of those stories are works of fiction just like this one but with this story in particular, it has that certain quality to it that other books just don't have. The illustration style is both unique and immersive. The formatting of the book alone makes the story feel real; having looked like it was drawn by an actual middle school girl with a ball point pen on notebooks and tests. At times it made me feel part of the story. I mean I knew that the story was fake but for those split seconds of complete immersion, it was priceless. I hope to read more stories like these and will definitely be checking out the next My Favorite Things is Monsters graphic novel as I heard there is a sequel. I want there to be more books like this in the future and hopefully by this graphic novel's release we will potentially see more storytellers go with this stylistic approach.
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