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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.

The first volume in a chronological series featuring the complete first series of fifty issues from the celebrated comic book series Love & Rockets includes the provocative "Heartbreak Soup" stories about the inhabitants of Palomar, a small village in a Central American country. Original.

Little demons have been stealing food from under the noses of the citizens of Palomar. Sheriff Chelo and speedy Pipo are on the case!.

A single-volume release of the Love & Rockets creator's two major stand-alone graphic novels includes "Poison River," in which Luba emerges from her pre-Palomar youth to marry a gangster and uncover secrets about her mother, and "Love & Rockets X," in which characters from diverse walks of life struggle with power politics in 1990s Los Angeles. Original.

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 Doral s 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

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.

Comics Dementia collects unexpected treasures, oddities, and rarities from outposts of the Love and Rockets galaxy, by one of Earth's greatest living cartoonists, Gilbert Hernandez. Saints, sinners, and the Candide-like Roy mingle in jungles, in fables, in outer space: in cocktail lounges and living rooms. Ditko meets Melville meets Bob Hope--but the party really starts bumping when the Alfred E. Neuman of the L&R-verse, Errata Stigmata, makes her entrance. Many of these stories haven't been available since their original appearance in comic shops in the 1990s.

Kitten, Maribel, and Gaby are three very different childhood friends about to celebrate their sixteenth birthdays, which all happen to fall on the same day. But someone's missing--their fourth friend, Una, who's imprisoned in Tijuana. So the trio set out to give Una the ultimate birthday gift--freedom--even if it means taking on an entire city Prepare yourself for some sweet sixteen super-action, madcap plot twists, identity crises aplenty, and--of course--gorgeous girls galore You'll go crazy over this lighthearted, rowdy, and sexy romp from Pen Center USA Award winner Gilbert Hernandez

In Fritz After Dark, which collects the graphic novels Luba: Three Daughters, High Soft Lisp, and more, the children are growing up and lovers have come and gone (and come and gone again). Luba, Petra, and Fritz are moving on to the next phases of their lives and careers, which puts their own pasts and relationships in perspective -- and, since they've all settled in Los Angeles, showbiz comes calling. Venus shoots a backyard superhero movie, Fritz becomes a B movie actress, and children's TV show host Doral s has the grandest of finales.

In the Eisner Award-winning wordless comic (silent movie?) "Hypnotwist," Hernandez's B-movie star Fritz plays a character who doesn't seem to be going anywhere, until she puts on a pair of glittery pumps. Her wanderings become increasingly surreal as she confronts motherhood, alcoholism, a sinister smiley face, cruelty, and her worst fate: "Killer" cameos Includes 16 pages of previously unpublished, additional material. "Scarlet by Starlight" is a B movie that's Star Trek meets Heart of Darkness. "Scientists," or colonizers, are doing research, surrounded by "primitive" fauna they affectionately nickname or treat like pests. Fritz plays Scarlet, a peaceful, catlike humanoid with a mate and children. When she becomes infatuated with one of the scientists, the fragile web of relationships explodes into violence and death, calling into question who the "advanced, civilized" creatures really are.The two graphic novellas that comprise the book will be published as a "flip book" with two covers, so the two stories each end in the middle of the book (with the one you're not reading being upside down). This very cool, handsome "Double Feature" package will be an essential item for Love and Rockets completists

Collecting the first five issues of Gilbert Hernandez's comic book series Blubber, an absurdly X-rated showcase for the most surreally transgressive of Hernandez's short stories. Weirdos (Blubberoo, Mr. Elvis, John Dick, the Mentor), creatures (the Mau Guag, Doogs, and Orlats...), and anthropomorphs (the Cloarks, the Kekeppy) visit places where most comics fear to go. Blubber veers between an absurdist satire of porn (and occasionally nature documentaries) as well as a defiant provocation to those unable to appreciate the difference between cartooning and obscenity. As R. Crumb said, It's only lines on paper, folks It is also a howlingly funny book, filled with a rogues gallery of colorful comic book monsters (the Pollum, the Junipero Molestat, the mythical Forest Nimmy) and characters (T.A.C. Man, Mr. Hippy, Padre Puto, the Snowman, Baron Mungo, Red Tempest) that echoes the sheer visual imagination of Jack Kirby.

Three Fritz B-movies: one is entirely new, while two of the tales are expanded from their original appearances in the ongoing Love and Rockets comic book series. The titular story, "Proof That the Devil Loves You," is a fable about a free spirit, Bula, played by Fritz. Something strange is going on in a town very reminiscent of Palomar. Gisel and Kiki are determined to understand why the hamlet's residents are acting so foolishly -- is it something in the air? And why can't Gisel leave? But when there's a violent turn, evidence points toward the supernatural. Then, Fritz plays the role of an "astronette" on an existential journey through space. Proof That the Devil Loves You is the latest in a series of graphic novels featuring Gilbert Hernandez's character Fritz, a B-movie actress (and half-sister to his iconic Love and Rockets character, Luba) whose hourglass figure has earned her a cult following. While Gilbert often explores Fritz's troubled life off-screen in Love and Rockets, for years he has also been "adapting" her exploitation films in various forms, including a series of standalone graphic novels that include Chance in Hell, The Troublemakers, Garden of the Flesh, Maria M., and Hypnotwist/Scarlet By Starlight.

"Love and Rockets author Gilbert Hernandez returns with Bumperhead, a companion book to Marble Season. Whereas Marble Season explored the exuberant and occasionally troubled existence of the wide-eyed pre-teen Huey, Bumperhead zeroes in on disaf--fected teenhood with its protagonist Bobby, a young slacker who narrates his life as it happens but offers very little reflection on the events that transpire. Bobby lives in the moment exclusively, and is incapable of seeing the world outside of his experiences. He comes of age in the 1970s, making a rapid progression through that era's different subcultures - in a short period of time he segues from a stoner glam-rocker to a drunk rocker to a speed-freak punk. He drifts in and out of relationships with friends, both male and female. Life zooms past him.

En amerikansk fotograf besöker Palomar, med katastrofala kulturkrockar som följd. Israel lär känna storstadens lastbarheter och Tonantzin steker sniglar medan hennes syster Diana får idrottsliga storhetsdrömmar. Heraclio berättar om sitt stormiga förhållande med den vilda Carmen, Jesus håller på att ruttna bort i fängelset, och Luba är som vanligt upptagen av sina ungar och karlar. Livet i den lilla byn Palomar i norra Mexiko har gått vidare, även om inte allt är som förr. Inte heller är det lättare. Gilbert Hernandez skildrar livet i den lilla mexikanska byn med en värme och humor som leder tankarna till John Steinbecks Jordisk lust och V.S. Naipauls Miguel Street.

Ett meningslöst mord bryter friden i byn Palomar. Det följs av fler. Skräcken griper omkring sig... Men det är som om morden bara var det hemskaste uttrycket för ett kristillstånd som drabbat flera av invånarna på olika sätt. Och det är något sataniskt över flockarna av små apor som hemsöker byn och driver alla till vansinne. "Blod över Palomar" är en gripande och uppskakande serieroman. Kaliforniern Gilbert Hernandez tillhör serievärldens mest fängslande berättare och finaste människoskildrare, unisont hyllad av kritikerna och flerfaldigt prisbelönad, även i Sverige.

”Giftets flod” är en fängslande serieroman med massor av sex, knark, pangpang och politik. Och kvinnor som kan knäcka valnötter med sina magmuskler. Hernandez berömda krönika om Palomar kretsar kring byns baderska, den storbarmade och ofta aggressiva Luba – viljestark, sexig, med många barn av nästan lika många fäder. ”Giftets flod” berättar om Lubas liv innan hon slår sig ned i Palomar. Luba, dotter till en lokal skönhetsdrottning och en fattig indian, blir bortgift redan som 15-årig till bandledaren och gangstern Peter Rio, som skänker henne ett liv i lyx bland våldsamt antikommunistiska gangstrar som mördar och terroriserar ”vänsterslöddret” i den fria företagsamhetens och ”patriotismens” namn. Denna spretande, komplexa berättelse om gangstrar, revolutionärer, fattigt folk, lyxhustrur, bögar och transsexuella och om kvinnors styrka och frihetslängtan följer personerna från femtiotalets början till sjuttiotalets slut, berättar om hur de förändras med åren och om den oföränderliga längtan och behovet av sex och närhet även hos de mest vedervärdiga. ”Giftets flod” har de tvära kasten, grälla personligheterna och sensationsartade händelserna hos en latinamerikansk såpopera, men är samtidigt en storslagen och förfärande politisk och social bildväv över ett utsuget, djupt korrumperat samhälle. Boken anses allmänt vara Gilbert Hernandez hittills största mästerverk. Gilbert Hernandez har nått världsrykte med sin långa, vindlande krönika om den halvt mytiska centralamerikanska byn Palomar och dess invånare. Flera av böckerna i sviten har redan utkommit på Epix Bokförlag.

Palomar – en liten by i norra Mexiko. I Palomar kastar baderskan Chelo arga blickar på sin konkurrent Luba, skönheten med de stora brösten, som alla tittar efter. I Palomar kan man få sig en livsfarlig knuff av ett osynligt väsen om man utmanar makterna med sitt övermod. I Palomar tappar en dag Jesus Angel behärskningen under ett gräl med sin fru, och kommer inte till sina sinnen igen förrän han är uppe i bergen. Den engelska författarinnan Angela Carter har beskrivit Gilbert Hernandez' serier som ”Buñuel på amfetamin”. Andra kritiker menar att han med sin ”magiska realism” knyter an till den latinamerikanska berättartradition som representeras av bland andra Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Hundra år av ensamhet). I vilket fall som helst är berättelserna om Palomar ett synnerligen underhållande storverk inom den moderna seriekonsten.