Paul Hornschemeier

A graphic novel presents the poignant tale of a young boy and his father struggling to accept the death of the family's mother.

Mother, Come Home

The Three Paradoxes is an intricate and complex autobiographical comic by one of the most talented and innovative young cartoonists today. The story begins with a story inside the story: the cartoon character Paul Hornschemeier is trying to finish a story called "Paul and the Magic Pencil." Paul has been granted a magical implement, a pencil, and is trying to figure out what exactly it can do. He isn't coming up with much, but then we zoom out of this story to the creator, Paul, whose father is about to go on a walk to turn off the lights in his law office in the center of the small town. Abandoning the comic strip temporarily, Paul leaves with his camera, in order to fulfill a promise to his girlfriend that he would take pictures of the places that affected him as a child. Each "chapter" of the story is drawn in a completely different style, with strikingly unique production and color themes, and yet, somehow, despite (or perhaps because of) this non-linear progression, it all comes together as one story: a story questioning change, progress, and worth within the author's life.

The Three Paradoxes

Jeffrey Brown

Martin Cendreda

Gabrielle Bell

Kurt Wolfgang

Verano 2007/ Summer 2005

Mome

"Somewhere in the Midwest, Amy Breis is going nowhere. Amy has a job she hates, a creep boyfriend she's just dumped, and a best friend she can't reach on the phone. But at least her (often painfully passive-aggressive) mother bought her a pink unicorn sweatshirt for her birthday. Pink. Unicorn. For her twenty-sixth birthday. Gliding through the daydreams and realities of a young woman searching for definition..." -- p. [4] of cover.

a cartoon

Life with Mr. Dangerous

La vita con Mr. Dangerous

Let Us Be Perfectly Clear is a collection of Paul Hornschemeier's full-color short stories and shows off his playful experimental side and his protean stylistic verve. Perfectly Clear brings back into print stories that Hornschemeier published prior to his Three Paradoxes Fantagraphics debut from a variety of sources―his own self-published Forlorn Funnies, as well as strips that originally appeared in independent magazines and papers―none of which has been available to the book trade.

Let Us Be Perfectly Clear

Mamma, torna a casa

Klappentext: Diese außergewöhnliche Graphic Novel besticht sowohl durch ihre klaren Zeichnungen als auch durch ihre eindringliche Geschichte. Thomas und sein Vater müssen nach dem Tod der Mutter ihr Leben neu beginnen, doch der Vater kommt nicht über den Verlust hinweg. Stattdessen ist es an seinem siebenjährigen Sohn, den Alltag zu organisieren und die Familie zu stützen. Paul Hornschemeiers Graphic Novel wurde in den USA von der Kritik gefeiert und wird sicher auch in Deutschland für Begeisterung sorgen. Selten wird im Comic so pointiert und bewegend erzählt.

Paul Hornschemeier

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