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-seventh birthday. Gliding through the daydreams and realities of a young woman searching for definition, Life with Mr. Dangerous showcases acclaimed cartoonist Paul Hornschemeier’s gift for deadpan humor and dead-on insight with a droll aftertaste—an unlikely but welcome marriage of the bleak and the hopeful.

Life with Mr. Dangerous

Comics & Graphic Novels

Hornschemeier, Paul

Graphic Novels

Villard

A year in the making, the follow up proper to the acclaimed Sequential no. 6, Sequential 7 sets its predecessor on its ear. At 128 pages (twice the size of 6), this is an undeniable cartooning tour de force, with stories ranging from a 30 page surreal story of symbols and self-degradation to one page weirdoes, to medium sized dramatic literature... Most notably features the unabridged version of the EXPO 2001 published "Ex Falso Quodlibet:" the wrenching tale of a creature struggling to make sense of loneliness in everyday life.

Stand on a Mountain, Look Back: Sequential Book Seven

Comic Strips

Margo Mitchell Media Group

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The Collected Sequential assembles the long-out-of-print series Sequential, where Paul Hornschemeier honed his comic craft. These seven comics have been long sought by fans of Hornschemeier, and AdHouse Books is proud to offer them in a beautiful hardcover format.</li></ul>

The Collected Sequential

Literature & Fiction

AdHouse Books

An intricate, complex autobiographical comic blending multiple threads of reality and fantasy, each drawn in a different style, coming together as one story questioning change, progress, and worth in the author's life.

Three Paradoxes

Fantagraphics Books

Let Us Be Perfectly Clear collects Paul Hornschemeier's full-color short stories and shows off his playful experimental side. With almost every page, we see a new style, a new direction; with the resultant effect being that of an anthology by creators of vastly contrasting sensibilities. Let Us Be Perfectly Clear demonstrates Paul Hornschemeier's versatility and breadth in an elegantly produced book that will appeal to connoisseurs of contemporary, cutting-edge cartoons and graphic novels.

Let Us Be Perfectly Clear (Forlorn Funnies Collection)

With clean, distinctive art and poignant storytelling, this is a quietly stunning tale of a father and son struggling, by varying degrees of escapism and fantasy, to come to terms with the death of the boy's mother.
Mother, Come Home is Paul Hornschemeier’s piercing graphic-novel debut, long out of print and now available for the first time in hardcover. It secured the cartoonist’s place as one of his generation’s most skillful and ambitious practitioners, and proved a harbinger of the subject matter that the artist would go on to explore most consistently in later work: the nuclear family.
Mother, Come Home quietly studies the inner lives of recently widowed David and his 7-year-old son, Thomas; both are unable to deal with their grief directly. Thomas, protected by a lion’s mask that his mother gave him, constructs an identity for himself as “the groundskeeper”: ritual and routine, already important to children that age, become paramount to him. He struggles desperately to keep up appearances while his father, a professor of symbolic logic, becomes lost in abstractions. Father and son begin to retreat into their fantasies, but only one emerges.
Mother, Come Home is masterfully drawn: Eisner-, Harvey-, and Ignatz-Award-nominated Hornschemeier’s controlled brushwork is clean, and his nine-panel page layouts pace David’s inexorable descent into utter despair. Hornschemeier is equally precise when it comes to Mother, Come Home’s color palette: subdued but warm, which suits the story’s melancholy and contemplative mode. Mother, Come Home is a powerful work with universal themes of anguish and loss.

Mother, Come Home

Fantagraphics

All and Sundry: Uncollected Work 2004-2009 corrals Paul Hornschemeire's work from the last five years. These works span mostly periodicals to European museums, including: drawings and comics created for an exhibit in Paris; an award-winning cover exhibited in London; the seventeen-part serialized tale "Huge Suit Vistis the People" created for the celebrated German newspaper Frankurter allgemeine Zeitung:; and a few US comic strips for The Wall Street Journal and CNN. The collection concludes with extensive selections from sketches and sketchbooks, demonstrating the variety and depth of the artist's interests and pursuits. All and Sundry invites an examination of the entirety of Hornschemeire's process, from first fevered scrawl to final, pristine brush line.

All and Sundry Uncollected Work 2004-2009

This is the first volume of Paul Hornschemeier’s ongoing one-man anthology of short stories told in both comics and prose. From the travails of the North American white-collar bald spot, to blade-wielding ghost stalkers, to the flippant urine of aristocracy, Forlorn Funnies Vol. 1 wrangles the disparate inhabitants of one skull: that of acclaimed cartoonist Paul Hornschemeier. Our principal concern of this volume, “Obvious Amenities,” is Act One in the story of Edward Molson, salesman. After the osprey-induced death of a coworker, Molson is thrust into a cross-country speaking engagement, a chance to revisit youthful diversions, and a potential extra-marital love affair. But for now, he must walk his wife’s dog. Again. The prose offering for this inaugural issue, “The Maintenance,” joins school custodian Morris Abbey on his rounds through the halls and lives of Grantswood Jr. /Sr. High School. Morris repairs and cleans the damages and detritus the student body inflicts on his building, but one student, Beatrice Dobbs, causes him concern when she takes notice of his secret habit. When the world’s gravity is being consumed by a massive beast, there is only one sweater-clad über man willing to cast aside his ice cream and tackle the problem: Captain All. In a bizarre fusion of science fiction and the subconscious that recalls the psychosis and sexual undercurrents of Fletcher Hanks and early pioneers of comic book heroes, Captain All is pulled by strange forces to manifest his uncomfortable, if effective, set of powers. Science fiction to surrealism, psychedelic parables to the modern quotidian. These stories, in concert with shorter experiments and gags, all squeeze themselves between the covers of this first volume of Forlorn Funnies, an ongoing collection of books that promises to be equal parts unpredictable and enthralling. Full-color throughout.

Forlorn Funnies Vol. 1

A self-portrait through 100 portraits, Artists Authors Thinkers Directors explores cartoonist Paul Hornschemeier's sketchbook renderings of those who shaped his (and many others) artistic views. These portraits are as stylistically varied as the subjects they portray. A scrawled, single line drawing of Lenny Bruce shares space with a triangular Werner Heisenberg. A monochromatic, stippled Stanley Kubrick stares intently at a muppet-headed Frank Oz. Each turn of the page offers a new take on a familiar face. In the afterword, Hornschemeier includes brief notes on each portrait and that creators particular work or insight that spoke specifically to him. And in that specificity, much of what is universally affecting in each creator shines through.

Artists Authors Thinkers Directors

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

La vie avec mister dangerous

Actes-sud

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