Reading the Multimodal Narrative

I read Emil's Bite that Changed My Life before reading her graphic novel, and I think it made my views skewed. Her interview comic was very much the same as her "voice" in her graphic novel. Not just the aesthetics and graphical components, while it also made an impact, it was also the way she wrote and phrased her sentences. It was written as if it was a younger child, or young adult, with very matter-of-fact sentences. This carries over in My Favorite Thing is Monsters, where I was unsure who the voice of the comic was. For most of the time, I felt as if it was the author narrating her story to me, but looking at it objectively, it seemed more likely it was written in the protagonist's point of view.

In a way, you could say "well, duh, the author put her soul into the comic, of course it would reflect her". In Emil's graphic novel, though, I felt like it was more about her and her experience, wrapped in a story. The story wasn't even that important in my opinion. It's about the protagonist solving her neighbors murder, but at the same time it's not. It's more about her interaction with people, her conversations, her relationship with her mother and brother, and her views on the world and how the world views her. The story may just be a vessel to show off her as a character.