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Maria's life consorting with the underworld makes for a sordid tale of sex, drugs, violence and power that fits right in with Fritz;s other film credits. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50601810952522,"sku":"mariam1","price":23.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8894\/4822\/files\/IMG_E6559.jpg?v=1743608636"},{"product_id":"maria-m","title":"Maria M.","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Gilbert Hernandez. Published by Fantagraphics. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover, 232 pages, B\u0026amp;W, 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis brutal, original crime thriller graphic novel, from the co-creator of Love and Rockets, tells the story of femme fatale Maria M. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaria M.'s is a sordid tale of sex, drugs, violence, and power. When she comes to America for a better life, she marries a drug kingpin, whose son learns Maria's darkest secret, leading to the most violent gangland bloodbath in organized crime history. Maria M. collects 2013's Book One (now out of print), and the never-before-published Book Two, presenting the complete graphic novel for the first time. Longtime readers of Hernandez's books will recognize a metatwist worthy of Maria M.'s pulpy pages: Maria M. doubles as a \"biopic\" of the mother of Hernandez's most beloved character: Luba from Love and Rockets!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Hernandez is one of the great craftsmen of modern comics.\" — New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Hernandez has become the medium's David Lynch or Guy Maddin, rolling his personal obsessions and freewheeling abstractions into stories that present as pulp, then take some very weird turns.\" — The A.V. Club\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The combination of classic cartooning and cinematic storytelling, as well as graphic sex and violence, pushed to near surrealistic extremes, should satisfy most devotees and inspire the creation of even more.\" — Library Journal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Maria M. is executed with style, strong and sensitive character development, practiced casual linework, and the kind of gonzo weirdness that defines the Hernandez ethos. This tale feels like the half-remembered dream of a midnight movie, making for a whimsy worth reading.\" — Publishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Every writer should be so lucky to have the imaginative chops that Hernandez shows in Maria M.\" — Southwest Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50601814360394,"sku":"mariam","price":30.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8894\/4822\/files\/IMG_E6556.jpg?v=1743609145"},{"product_id":"comics-dementia","title":"Comics Dementia","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Gilbert Hernandez. 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Many of these stories haven't been available since their original appearance in comic shops in the 1990s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50608431202634,"sku":"comicsdementia","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8894\/4822\/files\/IMG_E6623.jpg?v=1743693551"},{"product_id":"ofelia","title":"Ofelia","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Gilbert Hernandez. 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Luba's sisters, Fritz and Petra, swap lovers (as usual), but … are Fritz and family friend Pipo sittin' in a tree? These vividly drawn characters are charged with Hernandez's trademark complexity; they live, love, age, fight— and die—in this sweeping, multi-generational saga.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50612654408010,"sku":"ofelia","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8894\/4822\/files\/IMG_E6626.jpg?v=1743760723"},{"product_id":"luba-and-her-family","title":"Luba and Her Family","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Gilbert Hernandez. Published by Fantagraphics. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoftcover, 228 pages, B\u0026amp;W, 2014. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eIn the tenth Complete Love and Rockets Library comics omnibus, the fourth in the Palomar main storyline, Luba and her family leave Central America for the U.S., where she reunites with her half-sisters, Petra and Fritz.\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the tenth volume of The Complete Love and Rockets Library, and the fourth collecting writer-artist Gilbert Hernandez's Palomar main storyline, his sprawling family saga moves to the United States, where newly immigrated Luba and her sisters, body-builder Petra and therapist\/film star Fritz, find their families' and friends' lives becoming more and more intertwined. As the three sisters have \"memories of sweet youth,\" the next generation finds the spotlight: Luba's adult daughter, Doralís, emcees the proceedings in her role as mischievous host of a children's TV show, while Petra's little girl, Venus, has adventures with her aunt Fritz and her best friend Yoshio. At her mother's urging, Venus also writes missives to her fierce, one-armed cousin Casimira, who's back in Palomar. In these stories from 1997–2001 — never before collected together — Venus tells it like it is!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"If the early Palomar stories earned comparisons to Gabriel García Márquez, these stories resemble early Bret Easton Ellis (think the affectless, dry prose style of Less Than Zero), with some Judy Blume thrown in for good measure.\" — Tim O'Neil - The A.V. 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Meanwhile, Gilbert serves up the second and concluding part of \"The Magic Voyage of Aladdin,\" which establishes the rivalry of its two stars, Fritz and Mila. Who's Mila, you ask? And to make matters worse, who are the Fritz lookalikes that are coming out of the woodwork? You'll have to read Love and Rockets: New Stories No. 8 to find out!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50612841578826,"sku":"loveandrocketsnewstories8","price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8894\/4822\/files\/IMG_E6635.jpg?v=1743761708"},{"product_id":"love-and-rockets-new-stories-no-7","title":"Love and Rockets: New Stories No. 7","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Gilbert Hernandez \u0026amp; Jaime Hernandez. Published by Fantagraphics. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoftcover, 100 pages, B\u0026amp;W, 2015\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this seminal graphic novel series' latest installment, Maggie and Hopey finally go on a road trip, and there's more B movie fun with Fritz and Killer. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe seventh annual volume of Love and Rockets: New Stories, the most important and enduring alternative comics series in the history of the medium, finds Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez writing and drawing at the top of their game. In Jaime's stories, Maggie and Hopey take a much-needed break from their humdrum domestic lives and go on a road trip to visit a \"sick friend.\" And, when the cat's away, Ray visits some old, sick friends of his own. Plus Tonta's nutty family! Gilbert offers a suite of stories, including \"The Magic Voyage of Aladdin,\" a sweeping epic of derring-do in which Morgan Le Fey (Fritz) teams up with Aladdin to stop the evil Circle from obtaining the magic lamp; \"The Golem Suit,\" a WWII sci-fi thriller starring \"Killer\"; and \"Daughters and Mothers and Daughters,\" in which flashbacks to Luba's mother Maria reveal how ugly secrets of the past affect their family today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"...Jaime reunites lifelong pals Maggie and Hopey for a road trip, and Gilbert returns briefly to the fictional Latin American village of Palomar and casts his sometimes-actress character Fritz in a goofy costume epic featuring Aladdin and a spaceship. The familiar cast members and the Hernandez brothers' respective graphic strengths — Jaime's economically elegant cartooning and Gilbert's bold designs and imaginative characterizations — will leave fans satisfied and eager for next year's installment.\" — Gordon Flagg - Booklist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez have crafted one of the most salient, evocative modern romantic dramas in comics, if not any medium.\" — Sean Edgar - Paste\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The renowned Hernandez brothers continue this acclaimed series after more than three decades of fictional dramas and black comedies. ... The art, as always, is top-notch, black and white art rendering the characters as hugely expressive and lovable. 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That's because Killer has discovered that her great-grandmother Maria (Luba's mother) starred in a late 1950s crime movie, and begins to delve into the details of her family's twisted history. Complicating things is the fact that Luba's half-sister Fritz played Maria in an amped-up biopic version of her life, creating a postmodern alternate version of the classic \"Poison River\" which originally told Maria's story (in a tie-in release, see page 52 for the graphic novel version of this movie, Maria M. Part One)! In the other half of the book, Jaime continues to explore his intriguing new character Tonta: In \"Fuck Summer,\" Tonta is talked into joining the summer swim team but can't figure out why the brand new swim coach knows her — so, with help from friends, she sets out to find the answer. 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The infant and the old man are both Julio, and Gilbert Hernandez's Julio's Day 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"A haunting performance and about as perfect a literary work as I've read in years. Hernandez accomplishes in 100 pages what most novelists only dream of—rendering the closeted phlegmatic Julio in all his confounding complexity and in the process creating an unflinching biography of a community, a country and a century. 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