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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 In the first book of two, Gilbert Hernandez cartoons a meta "movie adaptation" of his Poison River storyline (complete with drug lords, "shady guardian angels," torrid affairs and more) starring Fritz as her mother. Zusammenfassung A woman comes to the U.S. from Latin America to escape her shady past! onlyto fall into a new shady life. After a go at the adult entertainment business!Maria marries a drug lord and her dangerous past is nothing compared to her newlife in America. The drug lord's son! Gorgo! secretly falls in love with her andhe watches over her like a guardian angel. Danger and corruption (and of coursesex) drive the first half of this love story. Long-time Love and Rockets readerswill find the storyline familiar... and that's because! in an Adaptation-stylemeta twist! Maria M. is actually the B-movie film adaptation of the life storyof Lub's mother Maria! as previously seen in its real version in the classicgraphic novel Poison River (available in the Beyond Palomar collection) starringMaria's own daughter playing her own mother. Confused? Don't be! Maria M. willwork perfectly on its own terms as the kind of violent! sexy pulp tale thatGilbert Hernandez has proven so adept at these past several years! and thesource material for the story will just provide an extra layer of delight forthe cognoscenti. Part two of Maria M. will be released in 2014. ...
