Time & Again - Chapter 1: Recession / Aufstehen

Lothar, a high class contract killer, takes a small break from work hoping to spend quality time with his friends. Despite good and peaceful intentions, his vacation doesn’t go as planned, and it seems something seriously troubling is haunting the man’s mind, not to mention constant presence of his eccentric uncle who just keeps babbling like nobody’s business... Lothar remembers something traumatic from his eventful past that’s been terrorizing him for quite a while now – that feeling has never gone away and keeps feeding on him even to this day. He makes up his mind and decides that the time has finally come for him to make amends for what should’ve been done long ago. He’s about to take a chance, no matter the cost (or outcome). Lothar’s uncle suspects his little nephew is potentially up to something perilous...

(Content warnings: alcohol reference, blood, partial nudity, uncensored profanity)

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“Time & Again” is my first graphic narrative (formerly known as a graphic novel). And it’s a graphic narrative with a twist. I consider it experimental, and by that I don’t mean just the oddities of narration, but also fluctuations of the style I allow in it: each chapter is different – to greater or smaller extent - in the visuals, emotions, and the message.
Note you don’t have to read the chapters in order! Each chapter is written in such a way that it represents a complete bite-size story with its own style and even a dominating genre definition. The story is episodic, yet continuous. Feel free to choose one (or two, or three) you like best! However, there is indeed a story progression, and you will probably get extra satisfaction from reading the entire thing, looking for clues and interconnections between various chapters and single utterances of the characters across those chapters.
It also has a fair handful of videogame references – sometimes ciphered - as well as other types of cultural references. Just remember: inquisitiveness ahead.
And do not let my art style deceive you (because it sure might): despite the colourful cartoony artworks, it focuses on a variety of serious and important questions that most of us humans face during their lifetime: loss of the beloved ones, self-doubt and sense of guilt, mental disorders and depression, what it means to be a human being, and the worth of a person in the world – those are among the questions it explores. Psychology, action, horror, romance, comedy, supernatural, and surreal are all mixed together in it. Reader’s discretion is highly advised.

I’ve been working on it since the end of 2020. It sparked from just one random experimental chapter, and during all these years this project of mine has grown and evolved into quite a voluminous and very serious undertaking. It’s not going be an exaggeration to say that I live and breathe “Time & Again”; it makes me feel accomplished as an artist as well as fascinated with how my art capabilities developed over the last decade or even two. To me, this story is an art manifest, a self-challenge, a thoughtful message that I want to deliver to the readers through the graphic novel medium.

This is an ongoing project for me for the next few years, which I quite resolutely plan to bring to an end – because it bears extreme importance to me as a creator, and I plan to release the next chapters here as soon as they are ready.
For easy search, I created 2 special tags for this grand project to use by you and me in social networks: #TimeAndAgainbyDWF and #LotharAndJeanny. You can also track down the progress with it on my Facebook Art Page and other social accounts of course, so don’t hesitate to subscribe; your support is greatly appreciated!