Illustrated stories, historical inventions, dry satire, and creative coloring books for people who enjoy discovering something unexpected.
Western noir for one evening, historical patents worth exploring, and a satire that starts provoking before the first page.
An illustrated western-noir mystery built from five conflicting witness statements after a fatal duel in Red Mesa, 1879.
Read a sample A 100-page engineering coffee-table book exploring 40 strange, beautiful, and brilliant historical U.S. patents.
Explore the book & preview A dry, self-aware hardcover satire about money, status, ego, impulse purchases, and taking a book title personally.
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Twenty-four scenes, including Alarm, Gar keine mehr and Geisterfahrer.
PDF · 2 pages · German · 0.5 MB
Seventeen characters, including Bombardiro Crocodilo and Chimpanzini Bananini.
PDF · 2 pages · English · 0.5 MB
More than 28 Stuttgart landmarks and city scenes.
PDF · 2 pages · German · 1.1 MB
Inventions, places, and German culture
Karl Sommer creates visual books for curious readers, from historical patents and surprising mechanisms to German places, architecture, and internet culture. His work combines careful selection, strong imagery, and accessible explanations of distinctive subjects.
Books by Karl Sommer →Weird westerns, dry satire, and absurd imagination
William Yard writes and designs books with unusual premises: illustrated western-noir stories, dry satire about money and status, and playful coloring books shaped by internet culture, absurd humor, and imaginative characters.
Books by William Yard →From city landmarks and internet culture to cosmic garden gnomes, the coloring books remain the creative side of the catalog.
Twenty-four memorable moments from German internet culture reimagined as coloring pages in a German-language meme coloring book.
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Surreal creature mashups, meme-inspired humor, and bold coloring pages in an Italian Brainrot coloring book for adults and older teens.
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More than 28 Stuttgart landmarks, architectural details, and favorite places in a German-language coloring book.
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