My New Favorite Thing is this Crosshatching

The next assigned text for the Comix Coven is My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris. Drawn on composition paper while she was recovering from West Nile Virus (a process that took seven years), the story enters the life of a young girl in 1960s Chicago, a girl who is fascinated by monsters. It has the feel of a noir detective story, a love poem to monster comics and film from that era, but what made me gasp when I first opened the book was the masterful hatching. I’m not sure what tool Ferris used (and in fact it looks like there are several different techniques in the book) but it looks like a crowquill — this must have taken thousands of hours to draw.

Also, and this is important to me — it looks as though ALL the lettering is hand-drawn. Hats. Off.