Tonta

by Jaime Hernandez

Overview

Tonta is staying for the weekend with her half-sister, the self-absorbed Vivian. At home, Tonta''s stepfather is shot during a botched burglary, which leads to the discovery of family secrets that require Tonta to confront some unpleasant truths that she previously managed to suppress or remain ignorant of. Meanwhile, back at school, Tonta and Gomez discover that Coach Angel harbours a secret of her own (can you say, ''lucha libre?'') while local punk band Ooot provides the soundtrack for a summer not soon to be forgotten.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781683962052
Publisher:	Fantagraphics
Publication date:	07/30/2019
Series:	Love and Rockets
Edition description:	1
Pages:	104
Product dimensions:	8.90(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Jaime Hernandez was one of six siblings born and raised in Oxnard, California. His mother passed down a love of comics, which for Jaime became a passion rivaled only by his interest in the burgeoning punk rock scene of 1970s Southern California. Together with his brothers Gilbert and Mario, Jaime co-created the ongoing comic book series Love and Rockets in 1981, which Gilbert and Jaime continue to both write and draw to this day. Jaime’s work began as a perfect (if unlikely) synthesis of the anarchistic, do-it-yourself aesthetic of the punk scene and an elegant cartooning style that recalled masters such as Charles M. Schulz and Alex Toth. Love and Rockets has evolved into one of the great bodies of American literary fiction, spanning five decades and countless high-water marks in the medium’s history. In 2016, Hernandez won the prestigious Los Angeles Times Book Prize for his graphic novel, The Love Bunglers. In 2017, he (along with Gilbert) was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame, and, in 2018, he released his first children’s book, the Aesop Book Prize-winning The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America. He is a lifelong Angeleno.

Editorial Reviews

"Love and Rockets [is] the rare pop cultural artifact that renders Latinas not as archetypes, but as rich and profound human beings full of messy contradiction and ambivalence."— LA Times

"This rambunctious ride is a master class in cartooning."— Publishers Weekly

"[Jaime’s work is] one of the finest bodies of fiction of the last 35 years."— Neil Gaiman

"A new volume of Love and Rockets, the best American comic book series of all time, is always good news."— Austin-American Statesman

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