![]() ![]() I don't know if that's why I chose this book, or if the variety seemed interesting while flipping through the pages. Hornschemeier's "Mother Come Home" stood out to me. ![]() Hornschemeier also sang and played guitar for the now defunct band Arks. In 2007 Hornschemeier colored the Marvel mini-series Omega The Unknown. In 2003, Dark Horse Comics published his first graphic novel titled Mother, Come Home. In 2001, after moving to Chicago, he self-published the final issue of "Sequential," and began publishing the full-color comics series "Forlorn Funnies" with (now defunct) Absence of Ink Press. After graduation from college, Hornschemeier began using colors in his comics. Those early experimental works have since been compiled by AdHouse Books under the title The Collected Sequential. He saw that comics could be a venue for exploring issues from his studies and other interests, and within a year he began publishing his own black and white comics, under the banner "Sequential". While majoring in philosophy and psychology at The Ohio State University, Hornschemeier was introduced to the graphic novel Ghost World by Daniel Clowes and began exploring underground and literary comics. As a child he liked to draw, dreaming that he might publish his own comic books one day. Paul Hornschemeier was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1977 and raised in nearby rural Georgetown, Ohio. 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. ![]() On our "forlorn" plate we are served the cold examination of the dyslexic narcoleptic and his bungled plans of murder, a sea creature's balancing of morality and sustenance, the Western romance "Wanted," a metal man's self-destructive search for meaning, and the story the alternative website Ain't It Cool News describes as delivering "a complicated mixture of disgust and pity." Rodentia (an unfortunate-looking fellow with only apathy as his weapon), a detailed artist's catalogue exploring such modern masterpieces as "Accidental Late-Night Sex With a Radiator," musings on the cancerous nature of civilization as observed by a deceased cat and a cotton-based airbus, the scatological "Feelings Check," the ever pathetic Vanderbilt Millions and his fantasies of self-worth, and the multi-narrative story that started the Forlorn Funnies comics series: "The Men and Women of the Television."Ĭlearly, there is a fine line in the Hornschemeier lexicon between funny and morose. On the "funny" menu, we are treated to Dr. 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. The book is designed as a "flip book" in the tradition of the old Ace paperbacks, with one side featuring comedic work (or as comedic as Hornschemeier's mind allows), and the other decidedly more morose. 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 is a collection of Paul Hornschemeier's full-color short stories and shows off his playful experimental side and his protean stylistic verve. ![]()
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