PanelxPanel #40 - My Favorite Thing is Monsters

is the Eisner Award-winning digital magazine celebrating the medium of comics. It’s edited by Strip Panel Naked host Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, and features a rotating set of writers ranging from critics to professionals, fans and comic stores.

Each issue has two halves across its ad-free pages. The first, a focus on a particular comic or concept, with a series of essays, interviews, process pieces and an exclusive Strip Panel Naked column all focused around that comic.

The 40th issue's focus is all about Emil Ferris'

The second half features regular articles, interviews, craft essays, a comic, and a series of comic recommendations from a range of comic-related voices.

This is a true celebration of the medium with every issue, looking at all the elements that make comics an interesting art form and great place to tell visual stories. This is a magazine that cares about comics.

Some of the features:

- An interview with Emil Ferris

- An exclusive Strip Panel Naked article on visual storytelling

- Additional essays and articles on horror iconography, the level of artifice in craft, empowerment of queerness, the monsters within society we can't stop, and more.

For the regular features:

- A short comic

- Final Thoughts on

- For Solo, an examination of the Cullen Bunn/Gabe Walta  series.

- Ryan North and Albert Monteys interview each other about their work on

And a guest gives us their take on My Top Five comics!

Available October 28th.