PALOMAR HC THE HEARTBREAK SOUP STORIES (MR) (07 Oct Release)

Palomar is the perfect entry into the works of critically acclaimed cartoonist Gilbert Hernandez and the still-ongoing Love and Rockets comic book series! It stars the inhabitants of a small Latin American town — long-suffering midwife/sheriff Chelo; Pipo¸ tomboy-turned-heartthrob; Carmen¸ wryer than her years; teen boys Heraclio¸ Satch¸ Augustin¸ Jesus¸ Israel¸ and Vicente¸ whose paths diverge and intersect over time; Diana and Tonantzin¸ sisters and polar opposites; and many other finely drawn and dynamic characters — whose already-tempestuous lives are roiled when Luba¸ an assertive single mother¸ moves there to set up a bathing business. Palomar is a selection from the first 50 issues (1985–1996) of Hernandez’s multigenerational saga¸ which has followed the lives and loves¸ adventures and horrors¸ of his signature characters¸ their children¸ and their children’s children — borne from a place where the mystical is quotidian and the quotidian is mystical — for 40+ years. These are the stories that forever changed the face (and the heart) of American comics.