Research Catalog

Title

Heartbreak soup / Gilbert Hernandez.

Author

Hernandez, Gilbert

Publication

Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics, 2007.

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Details

Description

287 p. : chiefly ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

The very first tales of Palomar! In the third issue of "Love and Rockets," Gilbert Hernandez abruptly jettisoned his Marvel- and "Heavy Metal"-influenced sci-fi yarns to focus on the day-to-day tribulations of the inhabitants of a tiny Central American hamlet more or less untouched by time - Palomar. The resultant graphic novelette, "Sopa de Gran Pena," sent shock waves through the comics field, and launched what would become one of the greatest comics works of the latter part of the 20th century. "Heartbreak Soup" features not only that original "Sopa" story, but the subsequent suite of tales that presented and defined the ever-evolving cast of characters from Palomar. Here, assembled for the first time in perfect chronological order and in an accessible softcover format, are the stories that propelled Hernandez to the forefront of modern-day cartoonists.

Subjects

• Graphic novels
• City and town life > Central America > Comic books, strips, etc

Genre/Form

Graphic novels

Note

• "A love and rockets book"

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Chelo's burden -- Heartbreak soup -- A little story -- Toco -- Act of contrition -- The whispering tree -- The mystery Wen -- The laughing sun -- On Isidro's beach -- Ecce Homo -- The reticent heart -- Slug fest -- An American in Palomar -- Boys will be boys -- Holidays in the sun -- Love bites -- The way things're going -- For the love of Carmen -- Duck feet -- Bullnecks and bracelets.

ISBN

• 1560977833 (pbk.)
• 9781560977834 (pbk.)

OCLC

237340429

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library