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CASANOVA FRANKENSTEIN, GLENN PEARCE
How to Make a Monster
On sale date: June 7, 2022
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.
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