Heartbreak Soup: The First Volume of 'Palomar' Stories from Love & Rockets: 1 (LOVE & ROCKETS LIBRARY GILBERT GN) - Softcover

Book 10 of 14: Love & Rockets Library

Hernandez, Gilbert

 
9781560977834: Heartbreak Soup: The First Volume of 'Palomar' Stories from Love & Rockets: 1 (LOVE & ROCKETS LIBRARY GILBERT GN)

Synopsis

This beautiful, affordable volume collects the first half of Gilbert's modern-day classic, featuring the acclaimed magical-realist tales of Palomar, the Central American hamlet, and its memorable inhabitants.

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About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

by Gilbert Hernandez This volume collects the first half of Gilbert Hernandez's acclaimed magical-realist tales of Palomar, continuing on through such modern-day classics as 'Ecce Homo,' 'Act of Contrition,' 'Duck Feet,' and the great love story 'For the Love of Carmen.'

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