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Title: Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories (Love and Rockets) by Gilbert Hernandez ISBN: 1-56097-539-3 Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Pub. Date: July, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A living, breathing town...
Comment: Palomar is just shy of being an offbeat spot on your tourist map. Gilbert Hernandez, who created the Love & Rockets universe with brother Jaime, has focused much of his attention on this small Latin American town and its people, and over the years it has grown into a living, breathing town. Now, the many tales of Palomar have been collected by Fantagraphics in a new hardback edition that brings its simple joys and tragedies together.
The stories aren't always linear, and characters gain solidity as Gilbert leaps back and forth in the timeline, introducing some as children, some as adults, and filling in various romances, breakups and acts of violence along the way. Key friendships hold firm from start to finish, and it's fascinating to watch them evolve as some characters go their separate ways and others grow closer than ever.
Gilbert's black-and-white art is crisp, clean and realistic. His people are believable; some are beautiful, some ugly, others average -- like those you'd find in any town. Their personalities are also highly defined, and it's fun to see them change as the years roll along.
Rating: 5
Summary: At Last!
Comment: I have been reading Love and Rockets for nearly 20 years and have always been rather partial to Beto's Palomar stories - although I do enjoy Jaime's stories as well. I have always hoped that all the Palomar stories would eventually be compiled into one volume, and here at last they are - and in this beautiful hardcover edition no less. Even though these are comics, the quality of the writing (including the artwork)is as strong as some of the best latino Literature (Beto's work is often compared to Gabriel Garcia Marquez). As such, I always felt that without the benefit of having the entire series contained in one volume much was lost in general continuity - and as a result the weight and depth of the work not entirely accessible or apparent. Now, the full depth and outstanding quality of Beto's masterwork is all contained in a single volume for anyone who might appreciates a quality piece of literature in a completely different way (with pictures).
Rating: 5
Summary: The Comic Book to throw at "I don't read comics" people
Comment: I've read Love & Rockets since about 1984. When a new issue of L&R comes out, I always read the Jaime Hernandez half first. I admit it, his art is much more atttractive to me than Gilbert's, and I identify with his characters a lot more, too. But then I settle down and dig into the Beto half. Whereas Jaime's Hoppers sagas could be described as Latino-punk soap operas, it is Beto that is creating new folklore. As much as I love Jaime's clean lines and cute-as-hell females, it is obvious whose craft shows the most depth, the most texture, and the most care, not only between Los Bros Hernandez, but between them and nearly every other comics creator ever. Earthy, sublime, funny, absurd, horrific, romantic, pornographic (in a good way), and honest are only a handful of inadequate adjectives to describe aspects Gilbert's work. This volume represents a large portion of his life, both in terms of time spent creating the contents, and what I'm sure is inside him. To read this is to see a competely new world, one that is the pure encapsulation of one part of the real world.
Now, when is the Complete Maggie & Hopey coming out?
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Title: Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography by Chester Brown ISBN: 1896597637 Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Blankets: An Illustrated Novel by Craig Thompson ISBN: 1891830430 Publisher: Top Shelf Productions Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Quimby the Mouse (ACME Novelty Library) by Chris Ware ISBN: 1560974850 Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Dicks and Deedees (Love and Rockets) by Jaime Hernandez ISBN: 1560975407 Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Fixer by Joe Sacco ISBN: 1896597602 Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly Pubns Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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