How To Make A Monster

How To Make A Monster
Casanova Frankenstein, Glenn Pearce
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Trade Paperback
h290 x 204mm - 224pg
8 Sep 2022 US
International import eta 10-30 days
9781683965718
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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 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.
In this sublime collaboration, Frankenstein and Pearce manifest into comics an excoriating, bleakly poetic memoir of Frankenstein' s hard-knock life in early 1980s South Side Chicago. . . . Pearce' s wonderfully fluid, ever-morphing underground comics art captures the nuance of Frankenstein' s plight. -- "Publishers Weekly"
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.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781683965718
Published: 8 Sep 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Fantagraphics
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 290mm
Width: 204mm
Pages: 224

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