Monstress Book One

2018 Eisner Award winner, BestWriter2018 Eisner Award winner, BestPainter/Multimedia Artist2018 Eisner Awardwinner, Best Continuing Series2018 EisnerAward winner, Best Publication forTeens2018 Eisner Award winner, Best CoverArtist2018 Harvey Award winner, Book of theYear2018 Hugo Award winner, Best GraphicStory2018 British Fantasy Award winner,Best Comic/Graphic Novel2018, 2016, 2015Entertainment Weekly''s The Best Comic Books of theYear2018, Newsweek''s Best ComicBooks of the Year2018, The WashingtonPost''s 10 Best Graphic Novels of theYear2018, Barnes & Noble''s Best Booksof the Year2018, YALSA''s Great GraphicNovels for Teens2018, Thrillist''sBest Comics & Graphic Novels of theYear2018, Powell''s Best Science-Fiction,Fantasy, Horror, and Graphic Novels of theYearThe richly imagined world ofMONSTRESS is an alternate matriarchal 1900s Asia, with an art deco-infusedsteampunk aesthetic that''s brimming with arcane dangers. Within it, a teenagegirl struggles to overcome the trauma of war, a task that''s made all the moredifficult by her mysterious psychic link to an eldritch monster of tremendouspower—a connection that will transform them both, and place them in thecrosshairs of both human and otherworldlypowers.Creator/writer Marjorie Liu (who madehistory as the first woman to win an Eisner Award for Best Writer) andcreator/artist Sana Takeda present a deluxe, oversized hardcover edition oftheir beloved breakout comic in MONSTRESS BOOK ONE. Collecting the first 18issues of the New York Times bestselling series, this massive edition features astriking new cover, as well as special extras, including never-before-seensketches, script pages, and more for over 500 pages of award-winning content.