Palomar comic books issue 1

1st printing. "PALOMAR: Part 3!" By Gilbert Hernandez. Beyond Palomar collected two of Hernandez's ground-breaking works about the Central American village in a single affordable book. "Poison River" traces the pre-Palomar childhood of Luba, her teenage marriage to gangster Peter Rio, the secrets behind her mysterious mother, all the way up to her eventual escape and arrival in Palomar. "Love and Rockets X" takes us from Beverly Hills to the dangerous east side and introduces us to a diverse cast of characters, including a lowlife rock 'n' roll band, a posse of black youths, a ditzy Hollywood mom and her spoiled son, a gay activist filmmaker and his rebellious, half-Iraqi daughter, and a group of racist thugs that set the story in motion. Softcover, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $16.95.

2nd and later printings. "PALOMAR: Part 3!" By Gilbert Hernandez. Beyond Palomar collected two of Hernandez's ground-breaking works about the Central American village in a single affordable book. "Poison River" traces the pre-Palomar childhood of Luba, her teenage marriage to gangster Peter Rio, the secrets behind her mysterious mother, all the way up to her eventual escape and arrival in Palomar. "Love and Rockets X" takes us from Beverly Hills to the dangerous east side and introduces us to a diverse cast of characters, including a lowlife rock 'n' roll band, a posse of black youths, a ditzy Hollywood mom and her spoiled son, a gay activist filmmaker and his rebellious, half-Iraqi daughter, and a group of racist thugs that set the story in motion. Softcover, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $18.99.

1st printing.

Written by Mario Hernandez. Art and cover by Gilbert Hernandez.

This comics omnibus includes the graphic novels Julio's Day and The Children of Palomar, as well as never-before-collected work by brothers Mario and Gilbert Hernandez, some of which has never been available since its early 2000s run in comic book single issues.

Children of Palomar and Other Tales (the fifteenth volume in our Complete Love and Rockets Library omnibuses and the eighth Gilbert volume) begins with "Me for the Unknown," uncollected since its original 2001-2004 run in Love and Rockets Vol. II comic books.

Written by Mario Hernandez and drawn by Gilbert Hernandez, it traces the Rabelaisian journey of Tagg Lillard. A U.S. citizen with a seemingly perfect life working in Latin America, he escapes a death trap clutching important papers, and an imperious CEO and his manservant pursue him through a land plagued by colonialist/corporate greed. Also collected: one of their joints from 2008, "Chiro el Indio." In The Children of Palomar suite of short stories (2006-2007; collected in 2013), there are many mysterious visitors, an apparition that haunts childless women, and readers learn how Chelo lost her eye. And in Julio's Day, which originally ran from 2001-2008 and was collected in 2013, a man's life-threaded with war, loss, illness, and forbidden love-spans a century.

Children of Palomar and Other Tales: A Love and Rockets Book is part of the Love and Rockets series.

Softcover, 242 pages, B&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $24.99.

1st printing.

Story and art by Gilbert Hernandez.

Originally released as a three-issue magazine series in the acclaimed international "Ignatz" format, New Tales of Old Palomar collects, into one handsome book, all three stories, representing Gilbert Hernandez's literary return to the small Central American town of Palomar. These stories feature tales of adventure and everyday magic starring many of Gilbert's most beloved characters.

Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 96 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $22.99.

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Volume 1 - 1st printing. Story and art by Gilbert Hernandez. New Tales of Old Palomar returns us to where the first Heartbreak Soup story left off. In book one, "Children of Palomar," thieves steal food from wherever they can grab it the quickest, then take off like lightning, but nobody seems to be able to catch the bandits in action until Pipo puts her soccer-trained legs to work and goes after them herself. In book two the children of the town explore a seemingly bottomless chasm outside the village. Softcover (Saddle-Stitched/Stapled with Dust Jacket), 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $7.95.

Volume 1 - 2nd and later printings. Story and art by Gilbert Hernandez. New Tales of Old Palomar returns us to where the first Heartbreak Soup story left off. In book one, "Children of Palomar," thieves steal food from wherever they can grab it the quickest, then take off like lightning, but nobody seems to be able to catch the bandits in action until Pipo puts her soccer-trained legs to work and goes after them herself. In book two the children of the town explore a seemingly bottomless chasm outside the village. Softcover (Saddle-Stitched/Stapled with Dust Jacket), 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $7.95.

1st printing. By Gilbert Hernandez. Collects "Heartbreak Soup" stories from Love & Rockets. Palomar is the mythical Central American town where these stories take place, and the stories weave in and out of its entire population, crafting an intricate tapestry of not only Latin American but also human experience. Hardcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 512 pages, B&W. Cover price $39.95.

2nd and later printings. By Gilbert Hernandez. Collects "Heartbreak Soup" stories from Love & Rockets. Palomar is the mythical Central American town where these stories take place, and the stories weave in and out of its entire population, crafting an intricate tapestry of not only Latin American but also human experience. Hardcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 512 pages, B&W. Cover price $39.95.

2nd Edition - 1st printing. Story and art by Gilbert Hernandez. Palomar is the perfect entry into the works of critically acclaimed cartoonist Gilbert Hernandez and the still-ongoing Love and Rockets comic book series! It stars the inhabitants of a small Latin American town — long-suffering midwife/sheriff Chelo; Pipo, tomboy-turned-heartthrob; Carmen, wryer than her years; teen boys Heraclio, Satch, Augustin, Jesus, Israel, and Vicente, whose paths diverge and intersect over time; Diana and Tonantzin, sisters and polar opposites; and many other finely drawn and dynamic characters — whose already-tempestuous lives are roiled when Luba, an assertive single mother, moves there to set up a bathing business. Palomar is a selection from the first 50 issues (1985–1996) of Hernandezs multigenerational saga, which has followed the lives and loves, adventures and horrors, of his signature characters, their children, and their childrens children — borne from a place where the mystical is quotidian and the quotidian is mystical — for 40+ years. These are the stories that forever changed the face (and the heart) of American comics. Hardcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 520 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $49.99.