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In 1983, Hernandez started writing and drawing short stories in Love and Rockets about a little central American town called Palomar and the interconnected lives of its inhabitants. The "Heartbreak Soup" stories, as they were called, established his reputation, and this mammoth, hugely compelling book collects the first 13 years' worth of them. The earliest stories in the book owe more to magical realism and Gabriel Garcia Marquez than to anything that had been done in comics before. But in later pieces, like the harrowing "Human Diastrophism" and "Luba Conquers the World," Hernandez's style is enti
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Manufacturer: Fantagraphics Books
Release date: 7 December 2003
ISBN-10 : 1560975393 | ISBN-13: 9781560975397
Release date: 7 December 2003
ISBN-10 : 1560975393 | ISBN-13: 9781560975397
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