Heartbreak Soup: A Love and Rockets Book

Product Code: 70123
Heartbreak Soup: A Love and Rockets Book
Heartbreak Soup: A Love and Rockets Book
Heartbreak Soup: A Love and Rockets Book
Heartbreak Soup: A Love and Rockets Book
Heartbreak Soup: A Love and Rockets Book

Heartbreak Soup: A Love and Rockets Book

Product Code: 70123
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Collects the earliest comics in Gilbert Hernandez's "Palomar" storyline, ripped from the pages of Love and Rockets: acclaimed magical-realist tales of Palomar, the Central American hamlet, and its memorable inhabitants.

This volume is the second in a chronological series, The Complete Love and Rockets Library, and the first that collects comics writer-artist Gilbert Hernandez's main "Palomar" storyline and more. Heartbreak Soup reprints the earliest tales a small Central American town, Palomar, beginning with the groundbreaking "Sopa de Gran Pena" (which introduces most of his main cast of characters as children, plus imposing newcomer Luba), and continuing on through such classics as "Ecce Homo," "Act of Contrition," "Duck Feet," and the great love story "For the Love of Carmen." In addition to seeing Hernandez develop as a cartoonist from 1983 to 1988, readers will see how he draws characters with various body types that change as they age in "real-time."

These stories first appeared in the long-running (and ongoing) Love and Rockets comics series, also featuring work by Gilbert's brothers, Jaime and Mario. L&R has been called "the greatest American comic book series of all time" by Rolling Stone and "a great, sprawling American novel" by GQ. It broke ground with its craft and the casual intersectionality of its huge and diverse casts of nuanced characters (many of whom are LGBQTIA+) who live and have relationships in often-naturalistic settings and situations (although L&R has SF and magical realist elements too). Along with contemporaries Chris Ware, Lynda Barry, and Daniel Clowes, the Hernandez brothers pushed the comics medium into new artistic heights.

Hernandez, Gilbert

Condition & Attributes

Fine (very flat, tight, clean)

Publishing Information

Seattle
Fantagraphics
2017
4th
978156977834

Physical Description

9.2 inches
7.4 inches
292 pages
black & white
Softcover
color wraps
English

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