Welcome to St. Hell : my trans teen misadventure

by Lewis Hancox

Paper Book, 2022

Status

Available

Call number

HQ77.8.H36 A3 2022

Genres

Graphic Novels and Comics

LGBTQ+

Graphic Novels

Comics

Collections

All Souls Unitarian Church, Transgender

Publication

New York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, 2022.

Description

Comic and Graphic Books. Young Adult Fiction. LGBTQIA+ (Fiction.) HTML: A groundbreaking memoir about being a trans teen, in the vein of FUN HOME and FLAMER... and at the same time entirely its own. Lewis has a few things to say to his younger teen self. He knows she hates her body. He knows she's confused about who to snog. He knows she's really a he and will ultimately realize this... but she's going to go through a whole lot of mess (some of it funny, some of it not funny at all) to get to that point. Lewis is trying to tell her this... but she's refusing to listen. In WELCOME TO ST. HELL, author-illustrator Lewis Hancox takes readers on the hilarious, heartbreaking, and healing path he took to make it past trauma, confusion, hurt, and dubious fashion choices in order to become the man he was meant to be. It's a remarkable, groundbreaking graphic memoir from an unmistakably bold new voice in comics..… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member reader1009

teen/adult graphic semiautobiographical fiction - British trans boy deals with body dysmorphia through 7th grade and high school, eventually figures out that he's transgender, and is finally allowed by uninformed, ignorant doctors to transition as he starts university. CW: anorexia, drinking, being

constantly misgendered.

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LibraryThing member villemezbrown

Lewis Hancox gives a straightforward account of his life as a trans man in northern England during the early 2000s. He keeps the tone relatively light and jaunty even as he deals with heavy topics like bullying, homophobia, transphobia and eating disorders.

Side note: It always makes me feel weirdly

happy to realize that a book like this that looks like a comic book I'd buy in the 1980's or 90's from a small indy publisher with a print run of one or two thousand copies and that might have four or ten sporadic issues over the course of several years is a 300-page original graphic novel from one of the largest publishers on the planet.

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LibraryThing member LibrarianRyan

I’m not sure what I was expecting from this graphic novel. There was something about the title that made me think it was a demon fantasy. However, it is a biography of the author and illustrator as looking back on their life and breaking the 4th wall, about being transgendered in a time when it

was not as visible as it is now. This book follows the character from age 11 to about age 19-20ish and it’s set at a middle grade reading level. There’s something in here for everyone. One doesn’t have to be trans, one just must be an ally, or open minded, to enjoy this book. What is neat is within the book, the author living their trans life now is talking to their younger self and saying it will be OK, or it’s going to change, or it’ll get better you have to live through this to get to the good stuff. Overall, this was a great read with great illustrations, and I can’t wait to see what the author comes up with next.

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