Beyond Palomar

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 Presents two stories from Gilbert Hernandez, and features "Poison River" in which Luba marries a gangster and moves to Palomar; and "Love and Rockets X," that depicts a local from Palomar who relocates to Los Angeles in the 1990s. Zusammenfassung Collects two groundbreaking works: "Poison River" traces the backstory of Luba! from child to teenage mob bride to her escape to Palomar; "Love and Rockets X" is a wide-ranging! Altman-esque story set in early-1990s L.A.

Product details

• Authors: Gilbert Hernandez, Gilbert Hernandez
• Publisher: Fantagraphics
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.12.2007
• EAN: 9781560978824
• ISBN: 978-1-56097-882-4
• Dimensions: 195 mm x 238 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Love and Rockets; The Complete Love and Rockets
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire > Comic; Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Graphic Novels, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Contemporary Women, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / LGBTQ+, Graphic novel & Comic book: types