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All and Sundry

Uncollected Work 2004-2009

October 20, 2009 | Hardcover
ISBN: 9781606992852
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Description

All and Sundry: Uncollected Work 2004-2009 corrals Paul Hornschemeier's work from the last five years -- work previously ungathered, and in many cases never before seen in print. These works span the globe, from periodicals to museums, including: con¬ceptual drawings and comics of Ulysses S. Grant created for an exhibit in Paris; an award-winning cover exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; the seventeen-part serialized tale of divine intervention, non-linearity, and social webs "Huge Suit Visits the People" created for the celebrated German newspaper Frankurter Allgemeine Zeitung; and comic strips for The Wall Street Journal and CNN featuring the unlikely cartoon protagonists of Michael Jackson, Sylvester Stallone as Rambo, and the "gray fox," Anderson Cooper. In addition to these oddities, All and sundry collects covers and designs from multiple foreign editions of Paul's books, ranging from Holland to Korea, as well as short, illustrated prose (thus far seen only in the pages of the anthology MOME). The collection concludes with extensive selections from sketches and sketchbooks, providing an unusual glimpse at the chaotic world of Hornschemeier's work, before the polishing of lines and colors of the printed page. Here we see how works have developed and what the future holds for still gestating projects. All and Sundry, perhaps more than any previous collection of Hornschemeier's work, demonstrates the variety and depth of the artist's interests and pursuits, and invites an examination of the entirety of his process, from first fevered scrawl to final, pristine brush line.

About this Author

ISBN: 9781606992852
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Published: 2009-10-20

Reviews

"Starred Review. It's a surprisingly rare thing to find the great comic artist who can not only draw with poetry and beauty, but write like a demon as well...Hornschemeier's skills are nearly as verbal as they are visual, his art encompassing many different styles...But taken together, the work exhibits an instantly recognizable and distinctive panache. The depth of his art truly comes to life in the melancholic squids of text and short fictions studding this collection...Perhaps the intrusion of the journeyman keeps an exquisite volume like this so rewarding and yet grounded."

"Hornschemeier avoids the hammering sentimentality and labored connect-all-the-dots obviousness of too much contemporary work, in any media."

"To breathe even a lungful of fresh air into the autobiographical comics genre is a challenge, but Hornschemeier succeeds. Although the mysterious pull of a place and its stories is never fully explained, the book is made stronger and more memorable by his elliptical approach."

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