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A new collection of graphic novel stories, in the series which is now 30 years old.

Autorentext

Gilbert Hernandez was born in 1957 in Oxnard, California, and is considered one of the greatest living comics writer-artists in the world. In 1982, Hernandez co-created, along with his brothers Mario and Jaime, the ongoing, iconic, internationally acclaimed comic book series Love and Rockets, one of the greatest bodies of work the medium has ever seen. In addition to his work on Love and Rockets, its spinoffs, and side series, Hernandez has released a prodigious amount of original graphic novels and miniseries, such as Sloth, Bumperhead, and Marble Season. He also collaborated with Darwyn Cooke on The Twilight Children for DC. He was inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 2017 and is the recipient of a Fellow Award from United States Artists and a PEN Center USA's Graphic Literature Award for Outstanding Body of Work. Hernandez lives in Ventura, CA, with his wife and daughter.

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In the latest installment of the long-running alternative comic series, Maria's kids, grandkids and great-grandkids create rival movie adaptations of her life (i.e., Gilbert Hernandez's Poison River story arc), while Jaime Hernandez's teen character Tonta tries to figure out how she knows her swim coach.

Zusammenfassung
Love and Rockets: New Stories #6's cover shows Gilbertâ™s new star Killer in a pose and milieu that will bring back memories for long-time fans â imitating the hammer-wielding Luba in her adopted Palomar. Thatâ™s because Killer has discovered that her great-grandmother Maria (Lubaâ™s mother) starred in a late 1950s crime movie, and begins to delve into the details of her familyâ™s twisted history. Complicating things is the fact that Lubaâ™s half-sister Fritz played Maria in an amped-up biopic version of her life, creating a postmodern alternate version of the classic âPoison River❠which originally told Mariaâ™s story (in a tie-in release, see page 52 for the graphic novel version of this movie, Maria M. Part One)! In the other half of the book, Jaime continues to explore his intriguing new character Tonta: In âFuck Summer,❠Tonta is talked into joining the summer swim team but canâ™t figure out why the brand new swim coach knows her â so, with help from friends, she sets out to find the answer. Meanwhile, something far more sinister is brewing behind the scenes...