How to Make a Monster

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By Casanova Frankenstein

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How to Make a Monster is a darkly humorous and bleak first-person narrative revealing Casanova Frankenstein's harsh upbringing on Chicago's South Side. Confronted with bullying, racial segregation, and a home of emotional neglect and violence, Frankenstein's story is a searing portrait of survival amid fear and isolation. The graphic novel’s art by Glenn Pearce complements the narrative perfectly, blending naturalistic portraiture with imaginative, phantasmagoric imagery to express the author's inner turmoil.
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This graphic novel suits readers seeking a mature, autobiographical exploration of hardship and resilience conveyed through evocative, artistic storytelling. Fans of memoirs, gritty urban narratives, and expressive graphic novels will find this work compelling.

How to Make a Monster is Casanova Frankenstein's unflinching memoir of growing up as a Black INTJ 13-year-old in 1980.

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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 a 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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Publishers Weekly praised the collaboration as a "sublime" and "excoriating, bleakly poetic memoir". The review highlights Pearce's "wonderfully fluid, ever-morphing underground comics art" which captures the nuances of Frankenstein's difficult life, making the memoir resonate powerfully through its visual and narrative synergy.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781683965718

Publisher: Fantagraphics

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 September 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Fantagraphics

Illustration: 1 Illustrations

Contributors:

By Glenn Pearce

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 204.0mm

Height: 290.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 224

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Adult Graphic Novels Casanova Frankenstein Fiction Graphic Novels

About the Author

Casanova Frankenstein was a Gen-X latchkey-kid, raised on the incongruous influences of '70s-era Chicago UHF TV-programming and American-hypocrisy. He earned degrees in Fine Art and Metaphysics and produced art, poetry, and comics (In The Wilderness, which he wrote and drew, was published by Fantagraphics in 2019). He worked a 25-year string of Kafkaesque day jobs while maintaining a strict personal code. Retiring early in 2016 due to health issues, he remains a combination of James Baldwin, Charles Bukowski, and Mad Max -- but 20-years ahead of his time. Born in 1975 Glenn Pearce, INFJ and animal and human rights activist, has been an Australian underground comic artist since 1990.