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Beyond Palomar (Paperback)
Gilbert Hernandez
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For the first half decade of Love and Rockets, Gilbert Hernandez
focused on fleshing out his small Central American hamlet of
Palomar. But eventually this became too restrictive for the kinds
of stories he wanted to tell, and he created, in quick succession,
two major standalone graphic novels. Beyond Palomar collects these
two groundbreaking works, together for the first time. "Poison
River" is a dizzying period piece often hailed as one of
Hernandez's masterpieces. It traces the pre-Palomar childhood of
Luba, her teenage marriage to gangster Peter Rio, the secrets
behind her mysterious mother, all the way up to her subsequent
escape and arrival in Palomar. This story introduces a number of
characters and themes that occupied later issues of Love and
Rockets (including Luba's mother Maria and her sinister guardian
angel Gorgo), and is a riveting page-turner besides, with lots of
sex, drugs, guns, politics, and women who can crack walnuts with
their stomachs. "Love and Rockets X," set in the early 1990s (in
the waning years of Bush I's post-Reagan hangover, with Gulf War I
in the background), takes us from plush Beverly Hills to the
dangerous east side and introduces us to a dizzyingly diverse cast
of characters, including a lowlife rock 'n' roll band, a "posse" of
black youths, a ditzy Hollywood mom and her spoiled son, a gay
activist filmmaker and his rebellious, half-Iraqi daughter, and a
group of racist thugs whose violent attack on an older woman sets
the plot in motion as well as bringing in several older characters,
including a couple of Palomar expatriates. Beyond Palomar is a
wildly original diptych of graphic novels by one of the great
cartooning talents of the last quarter century."
Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2007, Love and Rockets is
finally being released in its most accessible form yet: As a series
of compact, thick, affordable, mass-market volumes that present the
whole story in perfect chronological order. This volume will
collect the second half of Gilbert Hernandez's acclaimed
magical-realist tales of "Palomar," the small Central American
town, beginning with the landmark "Human Diastrophism," named one
of the greatest comic book stories of the twentieth Century by The
Comics Journal, and continuing on through more modern-day classics.
"Human Diastrophism" is the only full graphic novel length
"Palomar" story ever created by Gilbert. In it, a serial killer
stalks Palomar but his depredations, hideous as they are, only
serve to exacerbate the cracks in the idyllic Central American town
as the modern world begins to intrude. "Diastrophism" concludes
with the death (the suicide, in fact) of one of Palomar's most
beloved characters, and a postscript that provides one of the most
hauntingly magical moments of the entire series as a rain of ashes
drifts down upon Palomar. Also included are all the
post-"Diastrophism" stories, in which Luba's past (as seen in the
epic Poison River) comes back to haunt her, and the seeds are sown
for the "Palomar diaspora" that ends this dense, enthralling book."
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Hypnotwist (Hardcover)
Gilbert Hernandez
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In his first book with Faber, Hernandez tells the untold stories of
these American comics legends' youth, and portrays the reality of
life in a large family in suburban 1960s California. Told largely
from the point of view of middle child Huey - who stages Captain
America plays and treasures his older brother's comic book
collection almost as much as his approval - Marble Season deftly
follows these boys as they navigate their cultural and neighborhood
norms. Set against the golden age of the American dream and the
silver age of comics, and awash with pop-culture references - TV
shows, comic books, super-heroes and music -Marble Season subtly
details how their innocent, joyfully creative play changes as they
grow older and encounter name-calling, abusive bullies, and the
value judgments of others. A coming-of-age story both comic and
moving, it will have timeless resonance for children and adults
alike.
Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2007, Love and Rockets is
finally released in its most accessible form yet: As a series of
compact, thick, affordable, mass-market volumes that present the
whole story in perfect chronological order. This volume collects
the first half of Gilbert Hernandez's acclaimed magical-realist
tales of "Palomar," the small Central American town, beginning with
the groundbreaking "Sopa de Gran Pena" (which introduces most of
his main cast of characters as children, plus the imposing newcomer
Luba), and continuing on through such modern-day classics as "Ecce
Homo," "Act of Contrition," "Duck Feet," and the great love story
"For the Love of Carmen."
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Blubber (Hardcover)
Gilbert Hernandez
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Assassinistas (Paperback)
Tini Howard; Illustrated by Gilbert Hernandez
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First there were three: Octavia, Charlotte, and Rosalyn, a trio of
badass hit-women who picked up the slack when the going got too
real for other so-called top-level assassins. But things happened.
Octavia hung up her semi-automatic for a semi-lucrative kidnapping
insurance scam. Charlotte chose an expensive Chardonnay, love,
marriage and, until recently, a baby carriage. And Rosalyn? There's
a lot of conspiracies, but according to the federal government,
she's simply M.I.A. When a kidnapping hits too close to home,
Octavia is forced out of retirement and back into the
bounty-hunting business. Down two partners, she recruits her son
Dominic and his boyfriend Taylor to aid and abet her in a semester
of murder-based work study, where she'll teach them everything she
knows (if she can get them to put down the video games, stop making
out, and actually focus on the mission already). Can this
dysfunctional modern family pull off the greatest mission in the
history of the ASSASSINISTAS? Collects the complete miniseries,
issues #1-6.
In Ofelia, the sisters, the kids, and the cousins are all settled
comfortably in California after leaving Palomar in Luba and Her
Family. Luba and her cousin Ofelia s relationship has always been
fraught, but when Ofelia threatens to write a book about Luba, past
memories, secrets, resentments, and pain resurface. Meanwhile, Luba
s children genius Socorro, recently out-and-proud Doralis, and
prickly Maricela show that a talent for trouble may be hereditary.
Luba s sisters, Fritz and Petra, swap lovers (as usual), but . . .
are Fritz and family friend Pipo sittin in a tree? These vividly
drawn characters are charged with Hernandez s trademark complexity;
they live, love, age, fight and die in this sweeping,
multi-generational saga."
Gilbert Hernandez s sprawling family saga focuses on the United
States, where newly immigrated Luba and her sisters, body-builder
Petra and therapist/film star Fritz, find their families and
friends lives becoming more and more intertwined. As the three
sisters have memories of sweet youth, the next generation finds the
spotlight: Luba s adult daughter Doralis emcees the proceedings in
her role as mischievous host of a children s TV show, while Petra s
little girl, Venus, has adventures with her aunt Fritz and her best
friend Yoshio. At her mother s urging, Venus also writes missives
to her fierce, one-armed cousin Casimira, who s back in Palomar. In
these stories never before collected together Venus tells it like
it is "
A woman comes to the U.S. from Latin America to escape her shady
past, only to fall into a new shady life. After a go at the adult
entertainment business, Maria marries a drug lord and her dangerous
past is nothing compared to her new life in America. The drug lord
s son, Gorgo, secretly falls in love with her and he watches over
her like a guardian angel. Danger and corruption (and of course
sex) drive the first half of this love story. Long-time Love and
Rockets readers will find the storyline familiar... and that s
because, in an Adaptation-style meta twist, Maria M. is actually
the B-movie film adaptation of the life story of Luba s mother
Maria, as previously seen in its real version in the classic
graphic novel Poison River (available in the Beyond Palomar
collection) starring Maria s own daughter playing her own mother.
Confused? Don t be Maria M. will work perfectly on its own terms as
the kind of violent, sexy pulp tale that Gilbert Hernandez has
proven so adept at these past several years, and the source
material for the story will just provide an extra layer of delight
for the cognoscenti. Part two of Maria M. will be released in
2014."
It begins in the year 1900, with the scream of a newborn. It ends,
100 pages later, in the year 2000, with the death rattle of a
100-year-old man. The infant and the old man are both Julio, and
Gilbert Hernandez s Julio s Day is his latest graphic novel, a
masterpiece of elliptical, emotional storytelling that traces one
life indeed, one century in a human life through a series of
carefully crafted, consistently surprising and enthralling
vignettes."
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Garden Of Flesh (Hardcover)
Gilbert Hernandez
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New Tales of Old Palomar is Gilbert Hernandez s much-anticipated
return to the small Central American town of Palomar, more than a
decade after his last Heartbreak Soup story. Originally released as
a three-issue magazine series in the acclaimed international Ignatz
format, New Tales Old Palomar is finally collected into one
handsome book. All three issues deal with the classic characters of
Palomar such as sweet Pipo, her sharp-tongue sister Carmen, sheriff
Chelo, and the gang of boys who help start it all: studious
Heraclio, tall and fey Israel, disfigured but good-natured Vicente,
and girl-crazy Jesus and Satch. In the first story, Children of
Palomar, mysterious, fast-moving thieves are stealing food from
wherever they can grab it; Sheriff Chelo and some citizens do their
best to solve this mystery, but nobody seems to be able to catch
these bandits in action until Pipo puts her soccer-trained legs to
work and goes after them herself. In the second, Gato, Soledad,
Guero, Pintor, and Arturo go exploring a bottomless chasm and come
face to face with... well, we won t spoil the surprise. The third
and last story focuses on one of Palomar s most beloved characters,
the gorgeous but troubled Tonantzin: Everybody in Palomar seems to
take the supernatural with a grain of salt, but young Tonantzin is
determined to uncover the mystery of the laughing baby that only
appears to her, haunting her daily life. What is the baby s link to
the giant stone idols that stand outside the small town...?"
Dig this scene Low-life drug dealer Dewey Booth has $200,000 that
even-lower-lifes want. BLING Wes is a rock and roll loser that only
wants to buy a club where nobody can tell him he can't sing or
perform. WAILIN' He's known Dewey for years, but that isn't enough
to get his dough. Wes needs help. Nala is an uber-stacked bombshell
whose pleasure in life is to seduce and then humiliate men dumb
enough to fall for her. HUSH HUSH For half the dough, she agrees to
help Wes get Dewey's ill-gotten goods. Things don't go so well when
a wily grifter from Wes's past shows up to complicate things. GULP
Vincene is another troublemaker who enjoys wrecking people's plans
and wants the Dewey dough, too. In the end, deadly fires ignite,
heads literally roll, eyes are shot out and all Wes wants to do is
sing in a rock and roll club. The Troublemakers is the second
volume in a series of original graphic novels in which Gilbert
Hernandez creates comics adaptations of movies starring or
co-starring Luba's half-sister Rosalba "Fritz" Martinez from Love
and Rockets. The first, the dystopian Chance in Hell (in which
Fritz has only a bit part), was released in 2007. This hard boiled,
pulp graphic novel will delight longtime Hernandez fans as well as
provide a perfect introduction to newcomers to Hernandez's work."
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