Product Description

In 1982, brothers Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez created "Love & Rockets", an astonishing mixture of magical realism, science fiction, and meditations on the human condition which became one of the most critically acclaimed series of all time. Life goes on in the mythical Central American town of Palomar, with Luba, the town's larger-than-life mayor, providing a centrepiece to tales weaving in and out of the town's entire population, in a complex tapestry of Latin American life. Multi-award-winning writer and artist Gilbert Hernandez continues his densely plotted and deeply imagined tales, often compared with magic realist authors like Gabriel Garcia Marquez - a must for any fan of truly adult comics!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #119499 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-28
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Review
"The graphic equivalent to the fabulism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel laureate." - The Times "A high point in the comics form, conventional in idiom, but not comparable to any strips before it." - The Washington Post * "An extraordinary, eccentric and very literary cartoonist." - Publishers' Weekly * "Masterful" - Booklist"

About the Author
Born in Oxnard, California in 1957, Gilbert Hernandez (also known as 'Gilberto' or simply 'Beto') shot to fame when Love and Rockets was first published in 1981. Alongside his brother Jaime, 'Beto' crafted the 500-page series, Palomar. He has [iilegible] created Girl Crazy for Dark Horse comics, Eros Comix' Birdland, and Vertigo's Grip: The Strange World of Men, as well as the TV series The Naked Cosmos.