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Love and Rockets: Heartbreak Soup

The First Volume of 'Palomar' Stories from Love & Rockets
By Gilbert Hernandez
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Love and Rockets: Heartbreak Soup collects the first half of Gilbert Hernandez's acclaimed magical-realist tales set in Palomar, a small Central American town. Beginning with the groundbreaking Sopa de Gran Pena, the stories introduce the main characters as children and follow their lives through richly woven narratives.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Ideal for fans of graphic novels who appreciate magical realism and character-driven storytelling, as well as readers discovering comics through accessible, affordable collections.

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Beginning THE COMPLETE LOVE & ROCKETS, repackaged and reformatted: beautifully redesigned series covers, thicker books for less money mean more value. A modern classic.

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

This volume collects the first half of Gilbert Hernandez's acclaimed magical-realist tales of Palomar, the small Central American town, beginning with the groundbreaking Sopa de Gran Pena (which introduces most of his main cast of characters as children), and continuing on through modern-day classics.

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Tom Spurgeon of The Comics Reporter praises the series as "the best comics series of all time," highlighting these smaller, bargain-priced volumes as the perfect format to experience this landmark work.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781560977834

Publisher: Fantagraphics

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 February 2007

Country: United States

Imprint: Fantagraphics

Illustration: 288 Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 820g

Pages: 288

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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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