Paul Hornschemeier

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Paul Hornschemeier (born October 27, 1977 in Cincinnati , Ohio ) is an American comic artist . He publishes his works as graphic novels .

Life

Paul Hornschemeier was born in Cincinnati as the only son of a couple of lawyers. The family on the father's side is of German origin. When Paul Hornschemeier was four years old, the family moved to Georgetown , Ohio, where he grew up with his older sister Ann , an astronomer, and younger sister Mary. At the age of 18 he began studying philosophy and psychology at Ohio State University in Columbus , completing a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2000 .

Hornschemeier is an autodidact as a comic artist . He became interested in comics as a child after his dentist gave him a Spider-Man reprint by Steve Ditko for patiently enduring treatment . At home he had access to Edward Gorey's books and was enthusiastic about comic strips in The New Yorker magazine .

During his studies he got to know Daniel Clowes ' book, also made into a film, Ghost World , of which he said: It presented comics as a vehicle for emotion and honesty . (German: It used comics as a medium for feeling and honesty .) Hornschemeier feels shaped by Clowes' work as well as Robert Crumbs and Chris Wares .

Hornschemeier published his first comics, the Sequential series , in 1999. The series later appeared as a book under the title The Collected Sequential , as did the Forlorn Funnies series as Let Us Be Perfectly Clear . His work is reprinted in a number of anthologies in the USA . With Mother, Come Home , he published his first comic novel in 2003. He was followed in 2007 by The Three Paradoxes . Hornschemeier publishes his graphic novels in Germany with Carlsen Verlag .

From January 4, 2009 the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung presented its 17-episode wordless comic strip about "Huge Suit".

Hornschemeier lives and works in Chicago .

reception

Hornschemeier's work is highly praised by the critics; the Rolling Stone described him in 2005 as existential cartoonist . In 2007 the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung recognized his incredible virtuosity with which he made use of the narrative means of comics . The FAZ-Hochschulanzeiger rated his graphic novel Come back, Mother in 2007 as simply terrific and quoted Will Eisner , the inventor of the term "graphic novel", as saying graphic literature in the highest perfection .

Die Welt wrote about his first book, Come back, Mother , published in Germany : There aren't many books that one would like to read several times; but this tragically ending graphic novel is still weeping beautiful even the third time .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2005: La comete de Carthage , Paris
  • 2007: Fumetto , Lucerne
  • 2007: Adventures in Weltschmerz , Seattle
  • 2007: Adventures in Weltschmerz , New York

Awards

Paul Hornschemeier was nominated as “Outstanding Artist” for the Ignatz Award in 2002, and in 2003 for the Forlorn Funnies series as “Best New Talent” of the Eisner Awards . Forlorn Funnies was nominated for the Eisner Award in four categories in 2004. In 2007 he received the Victoria & Albert Museum Illustration Award . In 2007 Mother, Come Home was named Best American graphic novel . In 2008, Komm zurück, Mutter was nominated for the German Max and Moritz Prize in the “Best International Comic” category.

Works

  • Mother, Come Home (2003)
  • Come back, mother (German 2007)
  • The Collected Sequential (2005)
  • Let Us Be Perfectly Clear (2006)
  • The Three Paradoxes (2007)
  • The three paradoxes (German 2009)
  • All and Sundry: Uncollected Work 2004–2009 (2009)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg von der Haar: The history of the court and the clan of the Hörnschemeyer zu Wallenhorst. A contribution to the settlement and local history of the Osnabrück area . Self-published, Georgsmarienhütte 1971
  2. ↑ Information about Ann Hornschemeier on scienceticker.info (accessed on February 26, 2009).
  3. ↑ Andrew D. Arnold et al. a .: Comic Book Heroes . In: Time from January 30, 2005 (accessed February 26, 2009).
  4. ↑ Gary Groth: MOME Interview 1: Paul Hornschemeier . In: Fantagraphics Books, April 24, 2005 (accessed February 26, 2009).
  5. ^ Graphic Novels: Paul Hornschemeier Strip in the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung" ( Memento from October 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 26, 2009).
  6. ↑ Steven Russell: The existential cartoonist . In: Rolling Stone, March 24, 2005 (accessed February 26, 2009).
  7. ↑ Andreas Platthaus: The Liberation Strike - Killoffer and Hornschemeier turn the comic inside out . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of July 5, 2007, p. 33 (accessed February 26, 2009).
  8. ↑ Florian Vollmers: Reineguckt: Comics . In: FAZ-Hochschulanzeiger.de of May 13, 2007
  9. ↑ Brigitte Preißler: Beautiful to howl . In: Die Welt from July 10, 2007 (accessed February 26, 2009).
  10. ^ Exhibition selection on artnet.de (accessed on February 26, 2009).
  11. ^ Ignatz Awards 2002 ( Memento of February 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on spxpo.com (English).
  12. ↑ Eisner Award nominations 2003 on comicradioshow.com (accessed on February 26, 2009).
  13. ↑ Press release: nominations for the Eisner Awards on comicbookresources.com (English; accessed on February 26, 2009).
  14. ↑ Information on awards on artnet.com (accessed February 26, 2009).
  15. ↑ Nomination for the Max and Moritz Prize on carlsen.de (accessed on February 26, 2009).
  16. ↑ The three paradoxes ( Memento of October 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Hornschemeier, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comic artist, graphic novelist
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Cincinnati , Ohio