{"product_id":"heartbreak-soup-paperback-by-gilbert-hernandez","title":"Heartbreak Soup Paperback by Gilbert Hernandez","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eFantagraphics\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2007-03-17)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e288\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781560977834\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e822.15\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e23.52 x 19.1 x 2.39\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCollects the earliest comics in Gilbert Hernandez's \"Palomar\" storyline, ripped from the pages of \u003ci\u003eLove and Rockets\u003c\/i\u003e: acclaimed magical-realist tales of Palomar, the Central American hamlet, and its memorable inhabitants.\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume is the second in a chronological series, \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Love and Rockets Library\u003c\/i\u003e, and the first that collects comics writer-artist Gilbert Hernandez's main \"Palomar\" storyline and more. \u003ci\u003eHeartbreak Soup\u003c\/i\u003e reprints the earliest tales a small Central American town, Palomar, beginning with the groundbreaking \"Sopa de Gran Pena\" (which introduces most of his main cast of characters as children, plus imposing newcomer Luba), and continuing on through such classics as \"Ecce Homo,\" \"Act of Contrition,\" \"Duck Feet,\" and the great love story \"For the Love of Carmen.\" In addition to seeing Hernandez develop as a cartoonist from 1983 to 1988, readers will see how he draws characters with various body types that change as they age in \"real-time.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese stories first appeared in the long-running (and ongoing) \u003ci\u003eLove and Rockets\u003c\/i\u003e comics series, also featuring work by Gilbert's brothers, Jaime and Mario. \u003ci\u003eL\u0026amp;R\u003c\/i\u003e has been called \"the greatest American comic book series of all time\" by \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e and \"a great, sprawling American novel\" by \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e. It broke ground with its craft and the casual intersectionality of its huge and diverse casts of nuanced characters (many of whom are LGBQTIA+) who live and have relationships in often-naturalistic settings and situations (although \u003ci\u003eL\u0026amp;R\u003c\/i\u003e has SF and magical realist elements too). Along with contemporaries Chris Ware, Lynda Barry, and Daniel Clowes, the Hernandez brothers pushed the comics medium into new artistic heights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGilbert Hernandez\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eLove and Rockets\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the greatest bodies of work the medium has ever seen. In addition to his work on \u003ci\u003eLove and Rockets\u003c\/i\u003e, its spinoffs, and side series, Hernandez has released a prodigious amount of original graphic novels and miniseries, such as \u003ci\u003eSloth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBumperhead\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMarble Season\u003c\/i\u003e. He also collaborated with Darwyn Cooke on \u003ci\u003eThe Twilight Children\u003c\/i\u003e 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. 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