Speculative Fiction
A hybrid of text and art, Monster Portraits explores otherness through a Somali-American lens, blending the monstrous and familiar.
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A hybrid of text and art, Monster Portraits explores otherness through a Somali-American lens, blending the monstrous and familiar.
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Fiction. Art. Hybrid Genre. Relentlessly original and brilliantly hybrid, MONSTER PORTRAITS investigates the concept of the monstrous through a mesmerizing combination of words and images. An uncanny and imaginative autobiography of otherness, it offers the fictional record of a writer in the realms of the fantastic shot through with the memories of a pair of Somali-American children growing up in the 1980s. Operating under the sign of two--texts and drawings, brother and sister, black and white...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Romance & sex
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Violence & gore
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Moderate focus on monstrous imagery; some disturbing or grotesque elements implied.
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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Minor fantasy elements tied to monstrous and mythical themes.
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Moderate themes of otherness and mixed-race identity explored.
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Minor themes of alienation and societal otherness implied.
Other
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