HERNANDEZ GILBERT

(H/B) MARIA M.
This brutal, original crime thriller tells the story of femme fatale Maria M., whose life south of the border 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 organised crime history. Maria M. collects 2013's Maria M. Book One (now out of print), and the never-before-published Book Two, presenting the complete graphic novel for the first time. (From the publisher)...
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ΑΓΑΠΗ ΜΕΣΑ ΣΤΙΣ ΣΚΙΕΣ
Το "Αγάπη μέσα στις σκιές" είναι το τελευταίο αυτοτελές έργο του γνωστού δημιουργού τού "Love and Rockets" Gilbert Hernandez - ένα παραισθητικό, βίαιο και σέξι θρίλερ που μπλέκει δυο αδέρφια, μια πολυπόθητη κληρονομιά, μια συμμορία κομπιναδόρων του υπερφυσικού, μια αμφίβολη αλλαγή φύλου - και μέσα σ' όλα αυτά, πότε ως αληθινό πρόσωπο, πότε ως χαρακτήρας μυθοπλασίας και πότε ως αποκύημα της φαντασίας, η μία και μοναδική Ροζάλμπα "Φριτς" Μαρτίνες, του High Soft Lisp! (Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου)...
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(P/B) LOVE AND ROCKETS
Love and Rockets enters its fourth decade with this installment of its acclaimed graphic novel-format iteration, featuring both old friends and new faces, and some genuine surprises... The cover shows Gilbert's new star Killer in a pose and milieu that will bring back memories for long-time fans imitating the hammer-wielding Luba in her adopted Palomar. 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 histo...
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(H/B) MARBLE SEASON
In his first book with Faber, Hernandez tells the untold stories of these American comics legends' youth, and portrays the reality of life in a large family in suburban 1960s California. Told largely from the point of view of middle child Huey - who stages Captain America plays and treasures his older brother's comic book collection almost as much as his approval - Marble Season deftly follows these boys as they navigate their cultural and neighborhood norms. Set against the golden age of the American dream and the silver age of comics, a...
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(P/B) HEARTBREAK SOUP
In the third issue of Love and Rockets, Gilbert Hernandez abruptly jettisoned his Marvel- and Heavy-Metal-influenced sci-fi yarns to focus on the day-to-day tribulations of the inhabitants of a tiny Central American hamlet more or less untouched by time - Palomar. The resultant graphic novelette, "Sopa de Gran Pena," sent shock waves through the comics field, and launched what would become one of the greatest comics works of the latter part of the 20th century. Heartbreak Soup features not only that original "Sopa" story, but the subsequen...
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(P/B) LOVE AND ROCKETS
This latest instalment in the Love and Rockets canon finds the brothers Hernandez writing at the top of their game. In Jaime's stories, Maggie and Hopey take a road trip and a much needed break from their humdrum domestic lives, and travel to visit a 'sick friend'. But while the cat's away, Ray visits some old 'sick friends' of his own. We are also given the latest on Tonta's nutty family! Gilbert offers a veritable suite of stories, including 'The Magic Voyage of Aladdin', a sweeping epic of derring-do. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) JULIO'S DAY

(P/B) LOVE AND ROCKETS
The Hernandez Brothers are back with the second eye-popping volume of Love and Rockets: New Stories, your annual 100-page dollop of all-new L and R material. In the concluding 50-page half of Jaimes 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 Maggies tiny, messy one-bedroom apartment. Sandwiched between th...
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(P/B) LOVE AND ROCKETS
Love and Rockets: New Stories no.1 reboots the beloved ongoing "Love and Rockets" comic into a fat, all-new annual graphic novel length package. Jaime launches the new format with a story that's unusual even for him... A full-on, pulse-pounding super-hero yarn! Maggie's longtime friend Penny Century has finally realized her longtime dream of acquiring super-powers, but at a terrible personal cost. Now she rampages through the galaxy, half mad with grief, and a motley group of super-heroes assembles to try to stop her - led by Maggie's girl...
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(H/B) LOVE FROM THE SHADOWS
The third in Gilbert Hernandez's line of original hardcovers featuring Love and Rockets' "Fritz" in her guise as a Z-movie actress (the first two were Chance in Hell and The Troublemakers) is a trippy thriller that stars Fritz in no fewer than three roles. A beautiful waitress (Fritz, of course) and her hospital nurse brother (also Fritz) visit their estranged father, a once successful but now retired writer (amazingly enough, also Fritz), in order to find out the true reason why their mother committed suicide. When dad's health fails, the...
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(P/B) LOVE AND ROCKETS
After Jaimes two-part super-hero epic from Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 and #2, we return to the enthralling minutiae of the Locas casts lives for the first time in three years. In the main story "The Love Bunglers" (presented in two parts) Ray finally gets his date with Maggie: The couple goes to an art opening and to dinner, they discuss the crazy world of dreams, and Maggie asks Ray for a huge favor. Also in this volume, Brown Town, Blue Sun, a new installment in Jaimes beloved little kids flashback series: A ten-year-old Maggie and...
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(H/B) CHANCE IN HELL
Gilbert Hernandez's graphic novel CHANCE IN HELL is a marked departure from his LOVE AND ROCKETS work. The book opens into a barren environment where a nameless city dumps both its refuse and its unwanted offspring. The small child Empress is one of the residents there, and the brutal events she witnesses will haunt her in years to come. As an adult, Empress appears to have transitioned into a comfortable life -complete with a handsome and successful husband- but, troubled by her past and obsessed with finding her father, she is unable to ...
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(P/B) HUMAN DIASTROPHISM - THE SECOND VOLUME OF PALOMAR STORIES

(H/B) LOCAS: A LOVE AND ROCKETS BOOK

MUSIC FOR MECHANICS
The one that started it all. Containing the legendary first two (64-page) issues of Love and Rockets, it's one classic after another, including the first "Locas Tambien" (teenaged Maggie and Hopey tear up the town); "BEM" (Gilbert's 40-page sci-fi saga, with Luba in jungle-queen mode); "Mechanics" (Jaime's astonishing Maggie-abroad graphic novel); "Music for Monsters," featuring the pre-Birdland Bang and Inez; and much, much more. It's the book to start with, the book to return to, and the book you won't want to be without! (From the publi...
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(H/B) PALOMAR

LUBA: THREE DAUGHTERS (P/B)

(P/B) LUBA: THE BOOK OF OFELIA

CHESTER SQUARE

(P/B) BEYOND PALOMAR