Read more
Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This short-comics compilation returns to Gilbert Hernandez' fictitious Central American Palomar and its inhabitants. Zusammenfassung New Tales Old Palomar is collects a three-issue comics magazine series intoone handsome book. In the first story! mysterious! fast-moving thieves arestealing food; Sheriff Chelo and some citizens do their best to solve thismystery! but nobody seems to be able to catch these bandits until Pipo puts hersoccer-trained legs to work and goes after them herself. In the second! the boysgo exploring a bottomless chasm and come face to face with... well! we won'tspoil the surprise. The third and last story focuses on Tonantzin: Everybody inPalomar seems to take the supernatural with a grain of salt! but young Tonantzinis haunted by a laughing baby that only appears to her. What is the baby's linkto the giant stone idols that stand outside the small town...?
