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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, 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 artistic approaches ranging 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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• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Product Type: Graphic Novels
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• Cover Number: 0
• Ratio: 1
• Price: 29.9900
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• ISNM: 168396571X
• EAN: 978168396571852999
• Mature: N
• Adult: N
• Writer: Frankenstein, Casanova
• Artist: Pearce, Glenn
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• Diamond Series Code: 0
• Diamond Code: APR221459
• Diamond Ship Date: 2022-09-07
• Diamond FOC Date: 2022-04-29
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