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Blubber

By Gilbert Hernandez
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Blubber collects the first five issues of Gilbert Hernandez's comic series, featuring an absurdly X-rated and surreally transgressive set of stories. The narrative showcases a rogues' gallery of colourful characters and bizarre creatures like the Pollum, the Junipero Molestat, and the mythical Forest Nimmy. It blends absurdist satire of pornography and nature documentaries, pushing boundaries with a defiant provocation to those who cannot distinguish cartooning from obscenity. The artwork echoes the visual imagination of comic legends such as Jack Kirby.
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Blubber is suited for adult readers with an appreciation for experimental and provocative graphic novels, especially those interested in transgressive and surreal comics. It is recommended for open-minded fans of bold, boundary-pushing art and storytelling.

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The great Gilbert Hernandez's unfettered Id unleashed! Absurd, explicit, and profanely funny, Blubber makes all other comics blush.

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Collecting the first five issues of Gilbert Hernandez's comic book series Blubber, this collection is 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) as well as a defiant provocation to those unable to appreciate the difference between cartooning and obscenity.

As R. Crumb said, "It's only lines on paper, folks!" It is also a howlingly funny book, filled with a rogues gallery of colourful comic book monsters (the Pollum, the Junipero Molestat, the mythical Forest Nimmy) and characters (T.A.C. Man, Mr. Hippy, Padre Puto, the Snowman, Baron Mungo, Red Tempest) that echoes the sheer visual imagination of Jack Kirby.

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Critics hail Hernandez as a master of modern comics, praising his imaginative monsters and unrestrained creativity. The New York Times Book Review highlights the strange and unspeakable acts of Hernandez's invented creatures, while The Comics Journal notes the minimal focus on plot in favour of extreme depictions of sexual deviancy. Open-minded adult readers may appreciate the wild, unrestricted imagination of one of the medium's most revered storytellers, as noted by Library Journal. The work is compared to the surreal styles of David Lynch and Guy Maddin by The A.V. Club, underlining its unique and perverse storytelling approach.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781683964865

Publisher: Fantagraphics

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 04 January 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Fantagraphics

Illustration: 160 Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 175.0mm

Height: 270.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 160

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Adult Graphic Novels Fiction Gilbert Hernandez Graphic Novels

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.

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