THE COMMISSIONS

FORTHCOMING • 2023Hardcover, 500 pages

The third installment in the Emit Hopper Mystery Series.

While working on a set of commission drawings, Emit is mistakingly arrested. A young woman from his rock-and-roll days appears and, along with a renegade San Francisco detective, lures the washed-up artist into a blackmail scheme involving Cold War-era CIA secret spy rooms.



  West Margin Press
  YOU KNOW EXACTLY
The third Collection of ALL OVER COFFEE

2022, Hardcover, 176 pages

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After eleven years, the third and final collection of the popular and enigmatic series, All Over Coffee.

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COME TO LIGHT

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2020, 3 Volume Box Set, 522 pages

The second book in the Emit Hopper Mystery Series.

The bones of three missing women buried in the wilderness, a contract killing, a vengeful sister, a fake identity, an exuberant French nobleman, the Venice Biennale, a wealthy Japanese patron, a murderous five-year-old, a stolen bag, a man in a crocodile, a woman in a fountain, a paradise villa, a bohemian Roman heiress, a ring of international art thieves, a lovely major-domo, an unassuming detective, a rogue FBI agent, the flooding of Navona, a missing soldier, a drug party, a perp walk, a former rockstar turned artist and author, and of course, books, whiskey and drawing, always drawing.

From award-winning artist and author Paul Madonna comes an electrifying mystery novel full of surprising plot twists, lively characters, and over one hundred lush drawings. Presented in a beautiful three volume boxed set, Come to Light is an intoxicating page-turner that delights to the very end.

  West Margin Press
 

SPIRITS OF SAN FRANCISCO
Voyages through the Unknown City

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2020, Hardcover, 224 pages

A fantastic collaboration with Gary Kamiya (author of the best-selling book Cool Gray City of Love, and co-founder of Salon.com). Gary's fresh historical insights paired with Paul's lush pen and ink drawings.

"From two bestselling, prizewinning, and critically acclaimed contemporary chroniclers of San Francisco comes a rich, illustrated, idiosyncratic portrait of a great city"

Bloomsbury

  CLOSE ENOUGH FOR THE ANGELS

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2017, Hardcover, 454 pages

The first book in the Emit Hopper Mystery Series.

Of all fiction's classic detectives, the mystery genre now has a rare if not a previously unheard of character: The artist.

Emit Hopper. A struggling painter who became a one-hit wonder rock star, novelist, museum artist, laundromat owner, and unintentional detective.

A full-length novel with over one hundred drawings from Japan, China, and Thailand.

  Petty Curse Books
  ON TO THE NEXT DREAM

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2017, Hardcover, 96 pages

Initially published as the Eviction Series in All Over Coffee.

After a San Francisco artist is suddenly evicted from his home, the line between reality and surreality begins to blur. Absurd, maddening, and all-too-poignant, these drawings and stories capture the spirit of not just the Bay Area, but a cultural epidemic that has now spread to cities around the world.

  City Lights Books
  EVERYTHING IS ITS OWN REWARD

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2011, Hardcover, 240 pages

Following the popular first book, this best-selling second collection of All Over Coffee offers readers a vast new body of artwork. This stunning volume won the Northern California Book Award for best book. Includes an afterward by Paul Madonna.

  City Lights Books
  ALL OVER COFFEE

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2007, Hardcover, 176 pages
Introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Andrew Sean Greer

In this best-selling first collection of the popular and enigmatice series All Over Coffee, readers can follow the first three years of the strip, from inception to the when the series hit its stride. Includes a forward by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Andrew Sean greer and an afterward by Paul Madonna.

  City Lights Books
  ALBUM 01

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2009, Softcover, 44 pages

The first installment of Paul Madonna's Album series. A collection of drawings from toys found in Paul's childhood closet.


Electric Works & Paul Madonna Studio
EPUBS
  IMPERFECTION AND THE JUDGMENT MACHINE

Released 09 12 16

A collection of daily drawings in pursuit of rekindling the creative process. Includes an afterword by Paul Madonna.


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  THE BEARD YEARS

Released 08 28 15

The second installment of Paul Madonna's Album series. A collection of sketchbook work from 2001-2015. Includes an introduction by Paul Madonna.


$5.99
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