Bazylea: co grane
Poster for Emil Ferris: Between Selves

Cartoonmuseum BaselSt. Alban

Emil Ferris: Between Selves

Ostatni tydzień4 lipca 2026 – 15 listopada 202614 CHF

Emil Ferris's first solo show in Europe, with original pages from My Favorite Thing is Monsters, its second volume and unpublished drawings.

Kup bilety

Więcej: Bazylea

Everything on these walls was drawn in ballpoint pen on lined paper. Ferris told SRF she started as a girl with a spiral pad and two pens, one black and one blue. As an adult, West Nile virus left her paralysed, and she taught her hand to move again so she could draw her first graphic novel.

This is her first major solo show in Europe: original pages from both volumes of My Favorite Thing is Monsters, plus unpublished drawings, sketches, objects and children's books. Karen Reyes, a girl in 1960s Chicago, believes she is a werewolf, and the second volume goes back to the 1930s and the Shoah. Up close you read it as Ferris meant it, she told SRF: like a stranger's diary you know you should hand back, and can't stop reading.

It closes on 15 November, and that Sunday has a curator-guided tour at 2pm. Tickets are CHF 14, or CHF 7 for students under 25.

Wybór redakcji

Every page on these walls was drawn in ballpoint pen on lined paper, by an artist who taught her hand to move again after West Nile virus left her paralysed. Originals from both volumes of My Favorite Thing is Monsters.

Zwróć uwagę na

  • Karen's notebook pages

    Original pages from the first volume, where Karen draws herself as a werewolf girl in what reads as her own lined notebook, all in ballpoint.

  • The full-page tableaux

    Look for the full-page spreads where Ferris nods to Delacroix and Leonardo da Vinci as readily as to splatter horror.

Dla kogo

  • W pojedynkę
  • Pasjonaci
  • Goście spoza miasta

Odpuść, jeśli

You want light cartoons: the books deal with the Shoah, poverty, violence and racism.

Z dziećmi

Children under 11 get in free. The story on the walls includes the Shoah, violence and racism, so look at the pages yourself before bringing young children.

Cartoonmuseum Basel: inne wystawy

Teraz w pobliżu

W pobliżu

Źródła zdjęć

9

To Twoje zdjęcie? Poproś nas o poprawkę lub usunięcie.