As a result, several shipments ofcargo were stranded across the oceanand seized at certain ports.
Would they have to reprint copies?
What would happen to the cargo?
When I say art healed me, itreallyhealed me!
A new on-sale date has been set for February 2017.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How long have you been working onMy Favorite Thing is Monsters?
EMIL FERRIS:The original story was written about 15 years ago.
Its been around a very long time and a lot of things happened since this story was first written.
How did this affect your process?
I cant imagine it got any easier.
If I couldnt draw any more Id really like to make films.
So I was really fortunate [because] an amazing thing happened.
They really said, Lets just do it.
I was 40 years old and I was in a wheelchair with a six-year-old child.
I dont know how Im going to support her.
And then I got this, so it changed my life for the better.
So thats why when they told me that the book was lost I went, Well, okay.
These short-term bad things in my life always end up being good things.
So I just accept them.
So what exactly happened to the book?
Thats what its called, being arrested.
Its a strange experience altogether.
When did Fantagraphics agree to publish the book?
Were they there at the beginning when you realized this could work as a graphic novel?
I actually had another publisher that stepped forward and wanted to publish it early on and they were wonderful.
We thought we would publish some small thing.
This is really big.
This is two books.
We dont know what to do with this.
Im really lucky I ended up with Fantagraphics because they know what theyre doing.
They made a beautiful book.
[And] they really invested in it.
They put it on the cover of the catalogue.
I had schedules for a book signing at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
There were so many scheduled [promotional events], which have now all be cancelled.
When did you first find out this happened?
Thats such a wonderful outlook on this.
Well, I had to go through some dark days where I was grumpy to get there.
Was there any discussion about releasing the graphic novel digitally if the physical copies were still arrested?
Its almost like youre decoding something you found on the bus.
And thats kind of the feeling we want it to have.
I think its a little more difficult to have that experience when youre on a computer.
What are you working on currently?
