Overview
No one asks for the childhood they get, and no child ever deserves to go to Chartwell Manor. For Glenn Head, his two years spent at the now-defunct Mendham, NJ, boarding school - run by a serial sexual and emotional abuser of young boys in the early 1970s - left emotional scars in ways that he continues to process. This graphic memoir - a book almost 50 years in the making - tells the story of that experience and then delves with even greater detail into that experience's reverberations in adulthood, including addiction and other self-destructive behavior. Head tells his story with unsparing honesty, depicting himself as a deeply flawed human struggling to make sense of his childhood. Now in paperback.
Full Product Details
Author: Glenn Head
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics
ISBN: 9781683966890
ISBN 10: 1683966899
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 10 January 2023
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
A harrowing and important graphic novel.-- ""Hollywood Reporter"" This is a great graphic novel. I couldn't put it down... Starkly honest, a powerful story...the level of merciless self examination...I was deeply impressed. Head has traveled a long way to get to this point. ... A Masterpiece!It's good for the world...--R. Crumb Unflinchingly honest and hypnotically powerful, this is a standout entry on the shelf of the great graphic autobiographies.-- ""Publishers Weekly"" Chartwell Manor is a raw and cathartic story about how to reckon with the past, and a powerful reminder that sexual assault can take years to understand, much less recover from.-- ""Entertainment Weekly""
"A harrowing and important graphic novel.-- ""Hollywood Reporter"" This is a great graphic novel. I couldn't put it down... Starkly honest, a powerful story...the level of merciless self examination...I was deeply impressed. Head has traveled a long way to get to this point. ... A Masterpiece!It's good for the world...--R. Crumb Unflinchingly honest and hypnotically powerful, this is a standout entry on the shelf of the great graphic autobiographies.-- ""Publishers Weekly"" Chartwell Manor is a raw and cathartic story about how to reckon with the past, and a powerful reminder that sexual assault can take years to understand, much less recover from.-- ""Entertainment Weekly"""
A harrowing and important graphic novel.-- Hollywood Reporter This is a great graphic novel. I couldn't put it down... Starkly honest, a powerful story...the level of merciless self examination...I was deeply impressed. Head has traveled a long way to get to this point. ... A Masterpiece!It's good for the world...--R. Crumb Unflinchingly honest and hypnotically powerful, this is a standout entry on the shelf of the great graphic autobiographies.-- Publishers Weekly Chartwell Manor is a raw and cathartic story about how to reckon with the past, and a powerful reminder that sexual assault can take years to understand, much less recover from.-- Entertainment Weekly
Author Information
Glenn Head was born in 1958 in Morristown, New Jersey, and began drawing comics when he was fourteen. In the early 1990s Head co-created (with cartoonist Kaz) and edited Snake Eyes, the Harvey-Award nominated cutting edge comix anthology series and he was a frequent contributor to the Fantagraphics' comix anthology quarterly Zero Zero. From 2005 to 2010 Glenn edited and contributed to the Harvey and Eisner-nominated anthology HOTWIRE Comics and recently created his graphic epic, Chicago (2015). He lives in New York City.
