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How to make a monster
- Title
- How to make a monster / Casanova Nobody Frankenstein, Glenn Pearce.
- Author
- Frankenstein, Casanova Nobody, 1967-
- Publication
- Seattle, Washington : Fantagraphics Books, 2022.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PN6728.H69 F73 2022 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Pearce, Glenn (Artist)
- Description
- 222 pages : chiefly color illustrations; 29 cm
- Summary
- How to Make a Monster is Casanova Frankenstein's unflinching memoir of growing up as a Black INTJ (introverted, intuitive, thinking, and judging)13-year-old in 1980. 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.
- Subject
- Frankenstein, Casanova Nobody, 1967- > Biography > Comic books, strips, etc
- African American boys > Comic books, strips, etc
- African American children > Social conditions > Comic books, strips, etc
- Racism > United States > Comic books, strips, etc
- Segregation > United States > Comic books, strips, etc
- Survival > United States > Comic books, strips, etc
- Parent and child > Comic books, strips, etc
- Children of alcoholics > Comic books, strips, etc
- COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir
- COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary
- Abused children
- African Americans
- Introverts
- Nineteen eighties
- United States > Race relations > Comic books, strips, etc
- Illinois > Chicago
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographical comics
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Autobiographical comics.
- Graphic novels.
- Bandes dessinées.
- Bandes dessinées autobiographiques.
- Note
- "Written by Casanova Frankenstein and drawn by Glenn Pearce, How to Make a Monster is Frankenstein's unflinching memoir of growing up as a Black INTJ 13-year-old in 1980. Conveyed as a bleak first-person narrative with darkly humorous overtones, 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 at 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 an historically 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 perfectly realized drawing."-- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN
- 9781683965718
- 168396571X
- LCCN
- 2021951171
- OCLC
- on1285123574
- 1285123574
- SCSB-14500628
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library