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How to Make a Monster: Ugly Memories of Chicago from a South Side Escapee
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ISBN10: 168396571X
ISBN13: 9781683965718
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: Sep 6 2022
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.85
Height: 0.68 Width: 8.05 Depth: 11.21
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781683965718
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: Sep 6 2022
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.85
Height: 0.68 Width: 8.05 Depth: 11.21
Language: English
Conveyed as a bleak first-person narrative with darkly humorous overtones, Casanova Frankenstein reveals how real life experience shaped his hard-bitten, survivalist view of life. His was a world of fear and isolation punctuated by bullying thugs, the stifling atmosphere of the Lutheran school on the South Side of Chicago, racial segregation, unapproachable girls, and a home life consisting of an emotionally distant and unsupportive mother and an violent, alcoholic cop father who was not above giving his son a good thrashing now and again while preaching Christian family values. It is a searing portrait of an unbearably painful upbringing.
How to Make a Monster is illustrated by Australian outsider artist Glenn Pearce in a rare creative symbiosis in which Pearce captures Frankenstein's inner turmoil using a variety of stunningly realized artistic approaches from naturalistic portraiture to outrageously inventive phantasmagoric imagery. A seamlessly contrapuntal balancing act between Frankenstein's raw, unadorned writing and Pearce's stunningly detailed drawing.
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