How to Make a Monster: Ugly Memories of Chicago from a South Side Escapee by Casanova Frankenstein Hardcover Book

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How to Make a Monster: Ugly Memories of Chicago from a South Side Escapee by Casanova Frankenstein Hardcover Book

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.

ISBN-13: 978-1683965718

Publisher: Fantagraphics

Dimensions: 20.32 x 2.54 x 27.94 cm

Cover: Hardcover

Pages: 224

Colour: Full Colour

Writer: Casanova Frankenstein, Glenn Pearce

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