Monstress, Volume One: Awakening OM Regardless of whether or not

Regardless of whether or not you even like cats

Published by Peow Studio

'It is an incredible achievement of intelligent social storytelling… the book is highly progressive

painted with ink

and ambitious in its frank talk about what is oddly taboo: an inevitable experience for half of humanity

Monstress, Volume One: Awakening OM Regardless of whether or notBy Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda. Published by Image. Softcover, 202 pages, Colour, 2018. Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900s Asia, in a richly imagined world of art deco inflected steampunk, 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. Entertainment Weekly praised MONSTRESS as one of