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Let Us Be Perfectly Clear (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781560977520)
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Paul Hornschemeier
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xLet 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.
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. 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.
On the funny menu, we are treated to Dr. 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.
Clearly, there is a fine line in the Hornschemeier lexicon between funny and morose.
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.
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.
Author: Paul Hornschemeier
ISBN-10: 1560977523
ISBN-13: 9781560977520
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2006
Pages: 136
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.68h x 7.30w x 0.73d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/30/2006 pg. 43
Booklist 11/01/2006 pg. 37
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. 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.
On the funny menu, we are treated to Dr. 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.
Clearly, there is a fine line in the Hornschemeier lexicon between funny and morose.
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.
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.
Author: Paul Hornschemeier
ISBN-10: 1560977523
ISBN-13: 9781560977520
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2006
Pages: 136
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.68h x 7.30w x 0.73d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/30/2006 pg. 43
Booklist 11/01/2006 pg. 37
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