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From the pages of Love & Rockets, an intimate epic from south of the border.
For the first time ever, Fantagraphics is proud to present a single-volume collection of Gilbert Hernandez's "Heartbreak Soup" stories from Love & Rockets, which along with RAW magazine defined the modern literary comics movement of the post-underground generation. This massive volume collects every "Heartbreak Soup" story from 1993 to 2002 in one 500-page deluxe hardcover edition, presenting the epic for the first time as the single novel it was always intended to be. Palomar is the mythical Central American town where the "Heartbreak Soup" stories take place. The stories weave in and out of the town's entire population, crafting an intricate tapestry of Latin American experience. Hernandez's densely plotted and deeply imagined tales are often compared with magic realist authors like Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende (House of the Spirits). His depictions of women and Mexican-American experience have been universally lauded as the best examples the artform has to offer. Luba, the guiding spirit of Palomar since the outset, has been hailed by The Nation, Rolling Stone, and Time magazine as one of the great characters of contemporary American fiction. Hernandez's work, in addition to the obvious magic realist comparisons, shares an affinity with other Latin American and Spanish writer/artists, like Frida Kahlo, Federico Garcia Lorca and Pablo Picasso, all of whom applied a surrealist eye to what they saw and experienced. Palomar follows the lives of its residents from Luba's arrival in the town to her exit, twenty years later. Included are such classic tales as "Sopa de Gran Pena," "Ecce Homo," "An American in Palomar," "Human Diastrophism," and "Farewell, Mi Palomar." Palomar presents one of the richest accomplishments in the history of the artform in its ideal format for the first time, making it a must-have for longtime Love & Rockets fans and new readers alike.
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| Chelo's Burden | 1 | |
| Sopa De Gran Pena | 11 | |
| Heartbreak Soup, Part One | 13 | |
| Heartbreak Soup, Part Two | 38 | |
| A Little Story | 58 | |
| Toco | 64 | |
| Act of Contrition | 69 | |
| Act of Contrition, Part One | 71 | |
| Act of Contrition, Part Two | 81 | |
| Act of Contrition, Part Three | 92 | |
| The Whispering Tree | 104 | |
| The Mystery Wen | 107 | |
| Ecce Homo | 115 | |
| The Laughing Sun, Part One | 117 | |
| THe Laughing Sun, Part Two | 125 | |
| On Isidro's Beach | 137 | |
| Ecce Homo | 145 | |
| An American in Palomar | 163 | |
| The Reticent Heart | 165 | |
| Slug Fest | 176 | |
| An American in Palomar, Part One | 181 | |
| An American in Palomar, Part Two | 191 | |
| Boys Will Be Boys | 205 | |
| Love Bites | 213 | |
| Holidays in the Sun | 215 | |
| Love Bites | 229 | |
| The Way Things're Going | 240 | |
| For the Love of Carmen | 244 | |
| Duck Feet | 257 | |
| Duck Feet, Part One | 259 | |
| Duck Feet, Part Two | 271 | |
| Bullnecks and Bracelets | 287 | |
| Human Diastrophism | 309 | |
| Sugar n Spikes | 311 | |
| Space Case | 314 | |
| Heraclio's Burden | 318 | |
| Human Diastrophism | 320 | |
| Farewell, My Palomar | 427 | |
| Be Bop A Luba | 429 | |
| Farewell, My Palomar | 430 | |
| A Trick of the Unconscious | 446 | |
| The Way Things Went | 465 | |
| Pipo | 466 | |
| Carmen | 470 | |
| Another Mysterious Tree | 471 | |
| Luba Conquers the World | 477 | |
| Luba Conquers the World | 479 | |
| Epilogue: Chelo's Burden | 497 | |
| Chelo's Burden | 499 |
Overview
From the pages of Love & Rockets, an intimate epic from south of the border.
For the first time ever, Fantagraphics is proud to present a single-volume collection of Gilbert Hernandez's "Heartbreak Soup" stories from Love & Rockets, which along with RAW magazine defined the modern literary comics movement of the post-underground generation. This massive volume collects every "Heartbreak Soup" story from 1993 to 2002 in one 500-page deluxe hardcover edition, presenting ...