Monstress Volume 1: Awakening

Monstress Volume 1: Awakening

<div><font face="Calibri"><b>2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Writer</b></font><br><font face="Calibri"><b>2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Painter/Multimedia Artist</b></font><br><font face="Calibri"><b>2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Continuing Series</b></font><br><font face="Calibri"><b>2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Publication for Teens</b></font><br><font face="Calibri"><b>2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Cover Artist</b></font><br><font face="Calibri"><b>2018 Harvey Award winner, Book of the Year</b></font><br><font face="Calibri"><b>2018 Hugo Award winner, Best Graphic Story</b></font><br><font face="Calibri"><b>2018 British Fantasy Award winner, Best Comic/Graphic Novel</b></font><br><font face="Calibri"><b>2018, 2016, 2015 <i>Entertainment Weekly's</i> The Best Comic Books of the Year</b></font><br><font face="Calibri"><b>2018, <i>Newsweek's </i>Best Comic Books of the Year</b></font><br><font face="Calibri"><b>2018, <i>The Washington Post's</i> 10 Best Graphic Novels of the Year</b></font><br><font face="Calibri"><b>2018, Barnes & Noble's Best Books of the Year</b></font><br><font face="Calibri"><b>2018, YALSA's Great Graphic Novels for Teens</b></font><br><font face="Calibri"><b>2018, <i>Thrillist's </i>Best Comics & Graphic Novels of the Year</b></font><br><font face="Calibri"><b>2018, Powell's Best Science-Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Graphic Novels of the Year</b></font><br><br><font face="Calibri">Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900'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 the trauma of war, and who shares a mysterious psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, a connection that will transform them both and make them the target of both human and otherworldly powers.</font><br><br><font face="Calibri">About the Creators:</font><br><br><font face="Calibri">New York Times bestselling and award-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 at the Voices of Our Nation (VONA) workshop. Ms. Liu's extensive work includes the bestselling "Astonishing X-Men" for Marvel Comics, which featured the gay wedding of X-Man Northstar and was subsequently nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for outstanding media images of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Prior to writing full-time, Liu was a lawyer. She currently resides in Boston.</font><br><br><font face="Calibri">Sana Takeda is an illustrator and comic book artist who was born in Niigata, and now resides in Tokyo, Japan. At age 20 she started out as a 3D CGI designer for SEGA, a Japanese video game company, 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, and is an illustrator for trading card games in Japan.</font><br><br></div>