Overview
The eleventh volume of The Complete Love and Rockets Library (the fifth chronologically in Gilbert Hernandez's Palomar main storyline) collects stories from 2000–2005. In Ofelia, the sisters, the kids, and the cousins are all settled comfortably in California after leaving Palomar in Luba and Her Family. Luba's 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.
Full Product Details
Author: Gilbert Hernandez ,
Gilbert Hernandez
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics
Dimensions:
Width: 19.10cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.717kg
ISBN: 9781606998069
ISBN 10: 1606998064
Pages: 252
Publication Date: 08 February 2015
Recommended Age: From 16
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
Hernandez's stories amount to a dense spiralling narrative that jump back and forth in time and then strike off in unexpected directions. It's a Latino magic realist melodrama cum soap opera that accretes and accretes thrillingly with every new story. ...Gilbert Hernandez has spent the last 30 years and more on one of the greatest comic book adventures. Even in partial form, it's a staggering achievement. He is a comic book Balzac. --Teddy Jamieson
Author Information
Gilbert Hernandez was born in 1957 in Oxnard, California, and is considered one of the greatest living comics writer-artists in the world. In 1982, Hernandez co-created, along with his brothers Mario and Jaime, the ongoing, iconic, internationally acclaimed comic book series Love and Rockets, one of the greatest bodies of work the medium has ever seen. In addition to his work on Love and Rockets, its spinoffs, and side series, Hernandez has released a prodigious amount of original graphic novels and miniseries, such as Sloth, Bumperhead, and Marble Season. He also collaborated with Darwyn Cooke on The Twilight Children for DC. He was inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 2017 and is the recipient of a Fellow Award from United States Artists and a PEN Center USA's Graphic Literature Award for Outstanding Body of Work. Hernandez lives in Ventura, CA, with his wife and daughter.
