Gilbert Hernandez
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"There's a peeping tom prowling the neighborhood. Eyewitness reports vary, but one thing is agreed upon: he wears a Devil mask. This is the story of Val Castillo, a promising gymnast with a strange hobby: she is secretly the neighborhood peeping tom. At first she is alone in this, but when a male friend discovers her doings he joins her in a dark journey of spying and making discoveries about their neighbors that may have been better left alone. Especially...
Author
Series
Complete Love and Rockets volume 8
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
4) Maria M
Author
Series
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A brutal, original graphic novel crime noir from comics legend Gilbert Hernandez (Love and Rockets). Femme fatale Maria M.'s life south of the border is a sordid cacophony of sex, drugs, and power. She emigrates to America in search of a better life, only to find that it takes more than a change of scenery to break the cycle of violence..."--Back cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In the Eisner Award-winning wordless comic (silent movie?) 'Hypnotwist,' Hernandez's B-movie star Fritz plays a character who doesn't seem to be going anywhere, until she puts on a pair of glittery pumps. Her wanderings become increasingly surreal as she confronts motherhood, alcoholism, a sinister smiley face, cruelty, and her worst fate: 'Killer' cameos! Includes 16 pages of previously unpublished, additional material." -- Amazon.com.
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6) Julio's day
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Complete Love and Rockets volume 21
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
9) Blubber
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"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)...
Publisher
Fantagraphics
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
In Three Sisters, which collects the graphic novels Luba: Three Daughters, High Soft Lisp, and more, the children are growing up and lovers have come and gone (and come and gone again). Luba, Petra, and Fritz are moving on to the next phases of their lives and careers, which puts their own pasts and relationships in perspective and, since they've all settled in Los Angeles, showbiz comes calling. Venus shoots a backyard superhero movie, Fritz becomes...
Publisher
Fantagraphics
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The eleventh volume of The Complete Love and Rockets Library (the fifth chronologically in Gilbert Hernandezs Palomar main storyline) collects stories from 20002005. In Ofelia, the sisters, the kids, and the cousins are all settled comfortably in California after leaving Palomar in Luba and Her Family. Lubas and her cousin Ofelia's relationship has always been fraught, but when Ofelia threatens to write a book about Luba, past memories, secrets, resentments,...
Publisher
Fantagraphics
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
In the tenth volume of The Complete Love and Rockets Library, and the fourth collecting writer-artist Gilbert Hernandez's Palomar main storyline, his sprawling family saga moves to the United States, where newly immigrated Luba and her sisters, body-builder Petra and therapist/film star Fritz, find their families' and friends' lives becoming more and more intertwined. As the three sisters have "memories of sweet youth," the next generation finds the...
Publisher
Fantagraphics
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Human Diastrophism is the fourth volume in The Complete Love and Rockets Library, and the second that collects writer-artist Gilbert Hernandez's main Palomar storyline, magical-realist tales of a small Central American town. It begins with the landmark "Human Diastrophism." In it, a serial killer stalks Palomar but the murders only exacerbate the cracks in the idyllic Central American town that the outside world made when it began to intrude. "Diastrophism''...
Publisher
Fantagraphics
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
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...
15) Loverboys
Publisher
Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
An all-new graphic novel from Pen Center USA Award winner, Gilbert Hernandez!
Welcome to Lagrimas, a small south-of-the-border town where young men who consider themselves "loverboys" constantly hit on the ladies, but get shot down most of the time--until one begins an affair with the woman who used to be his seventh grade teacher! As their torrid romance unfolds, three young girls plot to poison the town's populace, just so they won't have to...
16) Grip
Publisher
Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Comics luminary Gilbert Hernandez delivers a genre mash-up unlike any other! When Mike Chang wakes up with nothing but a lipstick smudge, someone else's suit, and amnesia, he's thrown into a world of criminal gangs, crime fighters, skin swappers, and a one-eyed girl with bizarre powers! Collects Grip #1-#5.
Publisher
Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Comics luminary Gilbert Hernandez envisions his strangest, most thrilling future yet! A drug called "spin" offers the wildest trip imaginable, followed by its users' inevitable, rapid deterioration into undead flesh eaters. Despite the side effect, the drug is so popular that the human population is dying out! With no cure to be found, the beautiful, lovesick Fatima may be the only thing standing between the survivors and the apocalypse! Get ready...
Publisher
Fantagraphics
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The twelfth volume ofThe Complete Love and Rockets Library,Comics Dementia, collects unexpected treasures, oddities, and rarities from outposts of theLove and Rocketsgalaxy, by one of Earth's greatest living cartoonists, Gilbert Hernandez. Saints, sinners, and theCandide-like Roy mingle in jungles, in fables, in outer space: in cocktail lounges and living rooms. Ditko meets Melville meets Bob Hope but the party really starts bumping when the Alfred...
Publisher
Fantagraphics
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The sixth volume of The Complete Love and Rockets Library is the third collection of writer-artist Gilbert Hernandez's Palomar main storyline. "Poison River" is a dizzying period piece often hailed as one of Hernandez's masterpieces. It traces the pre-Palomar childhood of Luba, her teenage marriage to gangster Peter Rio, the secrets behind her mysterious mother, all the way up to her subsequent escape and arrival in Palomar. This story introduces...
Publisher
Fantagraphics
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
To a very great extent,Love and Rocketsis synonymous with the Locas and Palomar storylines and characters but there was always more toL&Rthan that. This volume ofThe Complete Love and Rockets Library, written and drawn by all three Hernandez brothers, collects all the stories that didnt fit into the Locas and Palomar storylines from that classic first, 50-issue run. Its a dizzying array of styles, genres, and approaches that re-confirms these groundbreaking...