Paulus L

Paulus L 

is a bilingual former professor, doctor, parachutist, military instructor, scuba diver, writer, academic editor, poet, and musician, who has travelled and lived throughout the world, from Toronto, New York, and Sydney, to the middle east, far east, Caribbean, Europe, and so on. He has lived several lives and thus brings this broad perspective of life into his stories.

He has returned, after a hiatus of decades, to his original love: graphic novels and bandes dessinées. It’s actually more than a way of life; a graphic novelist creates stories because he must in order to feel alive.

Paulus did have a measure of fun discharging the implicit obligation to society and family by conducting a “responsible” and conventional career, the unintended and imposed consequence of having accidentally done well in traditional schooling… but has recently forced his way back onto that original creative quest. And he will not apologise – in typical Canadian fashion - for doing so!

His original series, The Demonhuntress, is a growing universe of graphic novels (and some short stories) for readers who prefer serious dramatic, literary suspense in the traditional old school gothic aesthetic, such as the work of Edgar Allan Poe, Shelley’s Frankenstein, or Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho – spheres of hallucinatory and subtle supernatural intrigues, with deeper examination of reality (and unreality). The protagonists are typically women who grow to strength and indomitability under existential duress, through sheer will and cunning.

Paulus nowadays has gladly lost track of which story elements are from real life, versus those which emanate from imagination and are thus yet to be lived. After all, being a dedicated graphic novelist means never having to say you’re sorry!

The Demonhuntress, vol 3: The Drop of the Blade (Patria Nostra, 2022)

The Demonhuntress, vol 2: Who Knows When Death Arrives? (Patria Nostra, 2021)

The Demonhuntress, vol 1: Karavalitz (Patria Nostra, 2020)

1888 - The Year of the Ripper (Patria Nostra, 2021)