Broken Frontier

Fantagraphics Books is proud to announce the release of Paul Hornschemeier's long-awaited graphic novel, The Three Paradoxes - which officially hits stores this July- as well as an accompanying East and West Coast tour this summer.

The tour begins on the East Coast in late June, beginning at the Heroes Con in Charlotte, NC and continuing through Richmond, VA and Baltimore, MD, before ending in New York at the 2007 MoCCA Art Festival. Then the tour moves to the West Coast, beginning in late- July at the San Diego Comic-Con and continuing up the coast through early August, with stops in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle.

Of The Three Paradoxes, novelist Jonathan Lethem writes, "In The Three Paradoxes , Hornschemeier doesn't resolve the tension between the ironic and confessional poles in his work, he exploits it. Beautifully. The result hums with brilliance."

Hornschemeier's EAST COAST tour schedule is as follows:

WHEN: June 15 - June 17
WHERE: Heroes Con 2007
Charlotte Convention Center
501 S. College St. (& Stonewall Ave.)
Charlotte, NC
704-339-6000
http://www.heroesonline.com/con-update.htm

WHEN: Tuesday, June 19, 3:00PM - 6:00PM
WHERE: Velocity Comics
904 W. Broad St.
Richmond, VA
804-225-7323
http://www.velocitycomics.com

WHEN: Thursday, June 21, 7:00 - 9:00PM
WHERE: Atomic POP (w/Tao Lin)
3620 Falls Rd.
Baltimore, MD
410-366-1004
http://atomicpop.blogspot.com

WHEN: Friday, June 22, 8:00PM
WHERE: Rocketship
208 Smith St.
Brooklyn, NY
718-797-1348
http://rocketshipstore.blogspot.com

WHEN: June 23 - June 24
WHERE: MoCCA Art Festival 2007
Puck Building
293 Lafayette (at Houston)
New York City, NY
http://www.moccany.org/artfest-main.html

WHEN: June 27
WHERE: Stop Smiling Storefront
1371 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL
http://www.bookslut.com/readings.html

Hornschemeier's WEST COAST tour schedule is as follows:

WHEN: July 26 - July 29
WHERE: Comic-Con International
San Diego Convention Center
111 West Harbor Dr.
San Diego, CA
http://www.comic-con.org

WHEN: Tuesday, July 31, 8:00PM
WHERE: Secret Headquarters
3817 W. Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA
323.666.2228
http://www.thesecretheadquarters.com

WHEN: Wednesday, August 1, 7:30PM
WHERE: Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia St.
San Francisco, CA
415.282.9246
http://www.mtbs.com

WHEN: Saturday, August 4, 6:00PM
WHERE: Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery
1201 S. Vale St.
Seattle, WA
206.658.0110
http://www.fantagraphics.com/bookstore.html

WHEN: Tuesday, August 7, 7:30PM
WHERE: Powell's Books
1005 W. Burnside
Portland, OR
http://www.powells.com

The Three Paradoxes is an intricate and complex autobiographical comic by one of the most talented and innovative young cartoonists working today. The story begins with a story inside the story: Hornschemeier is trying to finish a story called "Paul and the Magic Pencil." Struggling with where to take the story, Paul joins his father on a walk, in order to fulfill a promise to his girlfriend that he would take pictures of the places that affected him as a child.

From this walk, the story leaps forward and backward through time, revolving around the events surrounding a beating near a funeral home when Paul was in fifth grade. Amid these temporal bounces and stylistic shifts, we are taken many places, including the time of Zeno and the pre-Socratic philosophers, where we abruptly dissect Zeno and Parmenides' relationship and their refutation of the existence of change. And with each step Paul takes on his walk, Paul gets closer - and yet somehow not - to figuring out how to end his story. The Three Paradoxes is one of the major graphic novel releases of 2007, three years in the making from this celebrated Chicago cartoonist.

Additional information on Hornschemeier can be found at www.forlornfunnies.com