Gilbert Hernandez

Beginning in the year 1900 with the scream of a newborn, and ending 100 pages later, in the year 2000, with the death rattle of that newborn as a 100-year-old man, the book traces one century in a human life.

"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)...

Collects a variety of one-shot stories and other series such as "My Love Book," "A Folk Tale," "War Paint," "Frida, "and "Hernandez Satyricon" in which the characters deal with love, friendship, and bizarre occurences.

The seventh annual volume of Love and Rockets: New Stories, the most important and enduring alternative comics series in the history of the medium, finds Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez writing and drawing at the top of their game. In Jaime's stories, Maggie and Hopey take a much-needed break from their humdrum domestic lives and go on a road trip to visit a sick friend. And, when the cat's away, Ray visits some old, sick friends of his own. Plus Tonta's...

Killer has discovered that her great-grandmother Maria (Luba's mother) starred in a late 1950s crime movie, and begins to delve into the details of her family's twisted history.

A collection of new stories from the alternative comic series created by three Mexican-American brothers from Southern California. It was the first comic series to give a voice to minorities and women in the medium's then 50-year history. This collection features all-new stories. Begins with a superhero yarn: Penny Century has acquired superpowers, but is half-mad with grief and rampaging through the galaxy. Other themes include: rookie cop vs. demonic...

"The girl who fell to Earth. Loma Shade may be from another planet, but she's still like every other twentysomething who feels that their life is going nowhere fast. Bored out of her mind, her solution is to drop out of school, dump her boyfriend and leave her homeworld of Meta behind--courtesy of the infamous "madness coat" of renegade poet Rac Shade, which is not so much a garment as it is a multidimensional gateway. After stealing the coat and...