It begins in the year 1900, with the scream of a newborn. It ends, 100 pages later, in the year 2000, with the death rattle of a 100-year-old man. The infant and the old man are both Julio, and Gilbert Hernandez’s Julio’s Day (originally serialized in Love and Rockets Vol. II but never completed until now) is his latest graphic novel, a masterpiece of elliptical, emotional storytelling that traces one life — indeed, one century in a human life — through a series of carefully crafted, consistently surprising and enthralling vignettes. There is hope and joy, there is bullying and grief, there is war (so much war — this is after all the 20th century), there is love, there is heartbreak. While Julio’s Day has some settings and elements in common with Hernandez’s Palomar cycle (the Central American protagonists and milieu, the vivid characters, the strong familial and social ties), this is a very much a singular, standalone story that will help cement his position as one of the strongest and most original cartoonists of this, or any other, century.

How do you follow up a one-two punch like Jaime Hernandez's stunning two-part masterpiece “The Love Bunglers” from LRNS  #3 and #4, which sent Maggie and Ray's relationship in a startling new direction, as well as providing some mind-blowing revelations about Maggie's (and her family's) past? If you're Jaime, you deftly move sideways and switch focus to other characters, specifically Ray's ex, the rambunctious “Frogmouth.” In “Crime Raiders International Mobsters and Executioners,” Muñeca, the Frogmouth's half-sister, comes to visit for a weekend and sees what kind of life the Frog Princess is living with Reno and Borneo — as well as a brand new character or two. On the other-brother side, Gilbert Hernandez celebrates the 30th anniversary by bringing one of his current characters (“Killer,” granddaughter to the legendary Luba) into the Palomar milieu in a story that showcases a fictionalized “movie” Palomar (starring Fritz as a combination of Luba and Tonantzín), even as it brings back a number of the classic Palomar characters for real. This will be a much-anticipated homecoming for fans of the “classic” Love and Rockets of the 1980s. Thirty years in, Love and Rockets continues to surprise and delight.

A rare foray into all-ages work, “The Adventures of Venus” was Gilbert Hernandez's contribution to the kids' anthology Measles which he edited in 1999 and 2000. This super-affordable little hardcover collects all the previously uncollected “Venus” stories from Measles in which Luba's niece creates and collects comic books, walks through a scary forest, plays soccer, schemes to get the cute boy she likes, laments the snowless-less of a California Christmas, catches measles, and travels to a distant planet (OK, the last one may be a dream). Plus a new story done just for this book!

With Love and Rockets: New Stories #3, Jaime Hernandez returned to his beloved “Loca” Maggie after a three-year hiatus, and the resultant stories — one (“The Love Bunglers”) set in the here and now detailing Maggie's continued romantic travails, and one, the heartrending “Browntown” (which was immediately hailed as one of the very best stories in the 30-year history of the series), set in her teenage days and involving some previously unseen members of her family.

Love and Rockets: New Stories #4 picks up both of these storylines, first with the conclusion to “Love Bunglers” (did Maggie really dump Ray again?), then with a sequel of sorts to “Browntown” in which teenage Maggie returns to Hoppers and a new life.

Meanwhile, on the Gilbert side of town, High Soft Lisp's Fritz returns in “Talkabout,” a 15-page dialogue with an old beau. Second up is the 35-page “King Vampire”: Two lovable teens, Cecil and Trini, want to join a local vampire club but real vampires show up and things get serious. Cecil loves it but Trini has her doubts about going all the way. But wait — is this a real story or another “Fritz movie”? Some of the characters look awfully familiar!

Move over, Josie & the Pussycats!

At last, a girl-centered comic book that actually appeals to girls (and eventheir parents)! Co-created by comics living legends Peter Bagge (Hate) and GilbertHernandez (Love & Rockets), Yeah! is a unique masterpiece of all-ages fun.Originally published as a nine-issue comic book series from 1999-2000 by DC'sWildstorm imprint, this all-ages gem (approved by the Comics Code Authority,no less!) is collected here for the very first time.

Krazy (vocals and guitars), Honey (drums) and WooWoo (keyboards) are themembers of the pop band Yeah! They've achieved intergalactic superstardom onevery planet but their own (Earth), where they live in anonymity and suffer indignities in their home of suburban NewJersey. The girls struggle with bad gigs (struggling to win $200 amateur-night contests despite playing to packed crowdsof adoring fans on Uranus), aliens who have crushes on them, and rival boy band The Snobs.

Separately, writer Peter Bagge and artist Gilbert Hernandez have well-deserved reputations as creators of some ofcomics' most complex female characters, and in Yeah!, they have collaborated to produce a pop-culture, sci-fi, mainstreamcomic that finally offers a riotous alternative to the leaden, out-of-touch humor of Archie Comics.

“Five six. Hundred twenty-eight pounds. Forty-three twenty-two thirty-six. High soft lisp. Genius level I.Q.” That's how motivational speaker Mark Herrera sums up Rosalba “Fritz” Martinez, bombshell, former punkette, former psychiatrist, “Z” movie star -- in this supremely sexy, constantly surprising graphic novel.

And Herrera should know, being only one of many to fall under Fritz's “lithping” spell--others including slobbish rocker Scott “The Hog” and high school nerd turned obsessive bodybuilder Enrique Escobar (and that's just her husbands).

Hernandez has taken this suite of stories (including the 48-page graphic novelette “High Soft Lisp”), originally serialized in the second volume of Love and Rockets, and fleshed them out with a dozen brand new pages, creating an original and inventive (and very steamy) volume that, through its connections to his main character Luba (Fritz is Luba's half sister, and characters from the Luba stories pop up here), works both as a standalone graphic novel and a further exploration of Hernandez's rich world.

Non capita certo tutti i giorni di assistere alle origini di un fumetto che, all'inizio degli anni ottanta, ha conquistato il pubblico segnando la rinascita del fumetto indipendente e che, dopo più di vent'anni, continua a godere di un clamoroso successo. Eppure questa è la storia della saga 'Love & Rockets' dei fratelli Beto e Jaime Hernandez. con queste 'Nuove storie della vecchia Palomar', Beto ci fa fare un tuffo nel passato, in un tempo precedente alle storie che tutti conosciamo, per guidarci nelle prime intricate vicende di Palomar, una cittadina latina apparentemente come tante altre, ma che, in realtà, ospita una popolazione dalle caratteristiche decisamente particolari. Questa terza e ultima parte di 'Nuove storie della vecchia Palomar', in cui Gilbert Hernandez ritorna ad alcuni dei suoi più amati personaggi, si concentra sulla bellissima ma travagliata Tonantzin. A Palomar, tutti trattano ciò che è legato al soprannaturale con le pinze, ma la giovane Tonantzin è determinata a risolvere il mistero del piccolo che ride e che appare solo a lei, infestando le sue giornate. Quel è il legame tra il bambino e l'idolo di pietra gigante che si trova alle porte della piccola città?

Il cofanetto raccoglie tre storie di Gilbert Hernandez.

Low-life drug dealer Dewey Booth has $200,000 that even-lower-lifes want. Wes is a rock and roll loser that only wants to buy a club where nobody can tell him he can't sing or perform. He's known Dewey for years, but that isn't enough to get his dough. Wes needs help.

Nala is an über-stacked bombshell whose pleasure in life is to seduce and then humiliate men dumb enough to fall for her. For half the dough, she agrees to help Wes get Dewey's ill-gotten goods. Things don't go so well when a wily grifter from Wes's past shows up to complicate things.

Vincenze is another troublemaker who enjoys wrecking people's plans and wants the Dewey dough, too. In the end, deadly fires ignite, heads literally roll, eyes are shot out and--all Wes wants to do is sing in a rock and roll club.

The Troublemakers is Gilbert Hernandez's second, original graphic novel for Fantagraphics, following 2007's Chance In Hell. This hard-boiled, pulp graphic novel will delight longtime Hernandez fans as well as provide a perfect introduction to newcomers to Hernandez's work.

The fourth volume of the online comics anthology MySpace Dark Horse Presents continues to bring you a wide range of genres and classic characters in the Dark Horse tradition. For the first time, Star Wars debuts comic content online with Dark Times: Blue Harvest. Our commitment to webcomics continues to shine with contributions from online-strip creators Chris Onstad, David Malki, and Kate Beaton. Eric Powell's backwoods-charm-filled series The Goon is the subject of an 'interpretation' from Gossip Whore Ann Romano. Plus, Joss Whedon teams with Season Eight cover artist Jo Chen for a special Buffy the Vampire Slayer story.

In the concluding 50-page half of Jaime's outrageous, acclaimed, full-on superhero mash-up “Ti-Girls Adventures,” our protagonist, rookie do-gooder Boot Angel, learns more hard lessons about becoming a superheroine. Eventually, just about the entire cast gets together in a big family reunion that unexpectedly takes place in Maggie's tiny, messy one-bedroom apartment.

Sandwiched between the concluding chapters of Jaime's story, Gilbert turns in two mind-benders of his own. “Hypnotwist” is Gilbert's 39-page epic story of a beautiful, leggy redhead's surreal journey into a night filled with mysterious shady characters, dreamlike violence, and sparkling retro spike heels. But is it real, or something else? For readers trying to parse the truth, Gilbert ups the ante by telling the whole story without using a single word. And 'Sad Girl' (previewed in our 2009 Free Comic Book Day offering) is the tale of a disaffected young bombshell actress nicknamed 'Killer' and the web of jealousy, gossip, notoriety and mystery that surrounds her.

Gilbert Hernandez climaxed his award-winning 'Palomar' series at the end of Love and Rockets' original run by leveling the Central American hamlet. But he soon picked up the story of Luba: The hammer-wielding matriarch had emigrated to the U. S. where she contended not only with an unwelcoming new culture but also her extended family. These 'America' stories - over 80 of them, ranging from quick one-page blackout sketches to graphic novellas—were originally published in a number of different comics and reprinted in a trilogy of oversized paperbacks. Luba collects in one compact, affordable hardcover the entirety of these tales, showcasing Gilbert Hernandez's wicked wit, great compassion, and uncanny understanding of how human beings love, squabble, and ultimately find a way to make it through this life.

One year after willfully slipping into a coma, troubled teenager Miguel Torres becomes a walking urban legend as he wakes up virtually unchanged--except for his sloth-like pace.

Promising gymnast Val Castillo is secretly a neighborhood peeping tom, but when she and her friend discover things about their neighbors that may have been better left alone, everyone is threatened.

Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 reboots the ongoing 'Love and Rockets' comic to a fat, all-new annual graphic-novel length package that will be available in bookstores. Jaime launches the new format with a superhero yarn: Penny Century has acquired superpowers, but is half-mad with grief and rampaging through the galaxy. A motley group of superheroes assemble to try to stop her. Only the first half of the saga, it combines Jaime's razor-sharp characterization and superlative art with wildly inventive, Kirby-style action. Gilbert Hernandez has these stories: 'Tamanny' (rookie cop vs. demonic drug users); 'Papa' (a turn-of-the-century story involving a traveling businessman); 'The New Adventures of Duke and Sammy' (superpowered Martin and Lewis impostors in outer space); 'The Tender Room' (Into the Wild as re-imagined by Beto); 'Chiro el Indio' (written by third brother Mario Hernandez); and 'Never Say Never' (a kangaroo gets lucky in Las Vegas).

A latest volume of complete Love & Rockets tales concludes the original 1982-1996 fifty-issue run, in a volume of non-Maggie and non-Palomar pieces that includes such entries as 'BEM,' 'Rocky and Fumble,' and 'Music for Monsters.' Original.

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Nuovo capitolo dei 'racconti perduti' di Palomar, la città di fantasia creata da Gilbert Hernandez e fulcro della maggior parte delle sue storie. In questa nuova storia i protagonisti sono Gato, Pintor e la sceriffa Chelo, che si troveranno inaspettatamente prigionieri di uno strano gruppo di persone e che gli somministrano un gas dagli effetti inaspettati.

Beyond Palomar collects two of Gilbert's groundbreaking worksabout the Central American hamlet of Palomar in one affordablebook.'Poison River' is a dizzying period piece often hailed as one ofHernandez's masterpieces. It traces the pre-Palomar childhood of Luba,her teenage marriage to gangster Peter Rio, the secrets behind hermysterious mother, all the way up to her subsequent escape and arrivalin Palomar. 'Love and Rockets X,' set in the early 1990s (in the waningyears of Bush I's post-Reagan hangover, with Gulf War I in thebackground), takes us from plush Beverly Hills to the dangerous eastside and introduces us to a dizzyingly diverse cast of characters,including a lowlife rock 'n' roll band, a 'posse' of black youths, aditzy Hollywood mom and her spoiled son, a gay activist filmmaker andhis rebellious, half-Iraqi daughter, and a group of racist thugs whoseviolent attack on an older woman sets the plot in motion.

Gilbert Hernandez's first original graphic novel from Fantagraphics follows on the heels of his acclaimed graphic novel, Sloth, from DC's Vertigo Comics in 2006. Chance in Helltells the story about a little orphan girl who lives in the slum ofslums. Nobody knows who she is or where she's from, but her fellowshantytown inhabitants collectively look over her. The three-act storyfollows our heroine as she is adopted by a decent man who raises herwell, and she eventually marries a kind, well-to-do man, only todiscover that she can't relate to the good life and the comforts itprovides. This is the first in a series of standalone stories depictingthe fictional filmography of Gilbert's Love and Rockets character, the B-movie actress Fritz. Hernandez wowed critics in 2003 with his epic work, Palomar,collecting more than 20 years of groundbreaking comics called 'the mostsubstantive single work that the comics medium has yet produced,' by Booklist. Chance in Hell further establishes Hernandez as one of the great cartoonists of our age.

Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2007, Love and Rockets is finally being released in its most accessible form yet: As a series of compact, thick, affordable, mass-market volumes that present the whole story in perfect chronological order.

This volume will collect the second half of Gilbert Hernandez's acclaimed magical-realist tales of 'Palomar,' the small Central American town, beginning with the landmark 'Human Diastrophism,' named one of the greatest comic book stories of the twentieth Century by The Comics Journal, and continuing on through more modern-day classics.

'Human Diastrophism' is the only full graphic novel length 'Palomar' story ever created by Gilbert. In it, a serial killer stalks Palomar—but his depredations, hideous as they are, only serve to exacerbate the cracks in the idyllic Central American town as the modern world begins to intrude. 'Diastrophism' concludes with the death (the suicide, in fact) of one of Palomar's most beloved characters, and a postscript that provides one of the most hauntingly magical moments of the entire series as a rain of ashes drifts down upon Palomar.

Also included are all the post-'Diastrophism' stories, in which Luba's past (as seen in the epic Poison River) comes back to haunt her, and the seeds are sown for the 'Palomar diaspora' that ends this dense, enthralling book.

Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2007, Love and Rockets isfinally released in its most accessible form yet: As a series ofcompact, thick, affordable, mass-market volumes that present the wholestory in perfect chronological order. This volume collects the firsthalf of Gilbert Hernandez's acclaimed magical-realist tales of'Palomar,' the small Central American town, beginning with thegroundbreaking 'Sopa de Gran Pena' (which introduces most of his maincast of characters as children, plus the imposing newcomer Luba), andcontinuing on through such modern-day classics as 'Ecce Homo,' 'Act ofContrition,' 'Duck Feet,' and the great love story 'For the Love ofCarmen.'

Una piccola città in cui una storia segue l'altra: bambini che si smarriscono, sostanze inquinanti che si mescolano all'acqua pura, demoni che rubano il cibo in giro. Una graphic novel semplice ma coinvolgente.

Luba: Three Daughters is the final book in Gilbert Hernandez's post-Palomar trilogy (following Luba in America and Luba: The Book of Ofelia), a body of work comparable in comics only to Hernandez's own Palomar in terms of scope and ambition. It continues the story of matriarch Luba and her extended family's travails in the United States after her Central American hometown is destroyed at the end of Palomar. Luba: Three Daughters focuses on Luba and her two sisters, Fritz and Petra, as Hernandez continues to use his characters to explore the complex relationships that form between family and how the experiences and actions of one generation influence the next. Hernandez is renowned for his female characters. Hernandez intersperses his main narrative with 'The Kid Stuff Kids,' a series of lighthearted and playful one-pagers starring the young children of the three sisters, richly juxtaposed against the complex family drama at work in Three Daughters. Hernandez's mix of Latino soap opera, magic realist touches and rich naturalism in the service of stories that speak to the changes that come with age and experience are unparalleled in comics, and feature the most vivid, memorable and honestly depicted characters in comics.

Luba: The Book of Ofelia begins with Luba, Ofelia and companytrying to acclimate to life in America, where Luba still has yet tolearn English. When Ofelia decides to chronicle her life with Luba in atell-all book, she discovers inspiration in Luba's young children—theone-armed Casimira, Socorro with the photographic memory, the lonerJoselito and the silent Conchita. The children lead Ofelia to aseemingly haunted field where the disembodied voice of a baby cryingopens the floodgates of memory, even memories Ofelia has spent alifetime trying to forget. Meanwhile, Hernandez continues to explorethe complex, sometimes violent, sexual dramas that are his trademark:Luba's daughter Guadalupe is now married to Gato, who is the ex-husbandof Pipo, who happens to be the producer of the TV show starring Luba'sother daughter Doralis. Pipo is dating a man named Igor, who once datedGuadalupe. As if that isn't enough, Luba's beautiful, lisping therapistsister Fritz, preoccupied with two different boyfriends—famous soccerchampion Sergio and gorgeous model Enrique—somehow finds time for athird man, Hector, only to change her mind and hook him up with hersister, the bodybuilder Petra. As these characters lives intersect andeven more characters come in to the sexually charged fray, things geteven more complicated, ultimately with deadly results.