Research Catalog

Title

Palomar : the heartbreak soup stories / Gilbert Hernandez.

Author

Hernandez, Gilbert

Publication

Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, 2003.

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Details

Description

522 p. : chiefly ill.; 29 cm.

Summary

Reprints every "Palomar" comic written and drawn by Gilbert Hernandez between 1982 and 2003, tracing the lives of the residents of the mythical Latin American village from the arrival of Luba, the guiding material spirit of Palomar, to her departure twenty years later.

Subject

• City and town life > Comic books, strips, etc
• City and town life > Latin America > Comic books, strips, etc

Genre/Form

• Graphic novels
• Comics (Graphic works)

Note

• "A love and rockets book"

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Chelo's burden -- Sopa de gran pena -- Heartbreak soup, part one -- Heartbreak soup, part two -- A little story -- Toco -- Act of contrition -- Act of contrition, part one -- Act of contrition, part two -- Act of contrition, part three -- The whispering tree -- The mystery wen -- Ecce homo -- The laughing sun, part one -- The laughing sun, part two -- On Isidro's beach -- Ecce homo -- An American in Palomar -- The reticent heart -- Slug fest -- An American in Palomar, part one -- An American in Palomar, part two -- Boys will be boys -- Love bites -- Holidays in the sun -- Love bites -- The way things're going -- For the love of Carmen -- Duck feet -- Duck feet, part one -- Duck feet, part two -- Bullnecks and bracelets -- Human diastrophism -- Sugar n spikes -- Space case -- Heraclio's burden -- Human diastrophism -- Farewell, my Palomar -- Be bop a luba -- Farewell, my Palomar -- A trick of the unconscious -- The way things went -- Pipo -- Carmen -- Another mysterious tree -- Luba conquers the world -- Epilogue: Chelo's burden -- Chelo's burden.

ISBN

1560975393

OCLC

• 932529052
• SCSB-12740967

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library