{"title":"Gilbert Hernandez Books","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrowse the books by Gilbert Hernandez we have in stock, second-hand, in paperback and hardback. Mostly comics and graphic novels, as well as literary fiction. Every book ships from our own UK warehouse. Free UK delivery on orders of £10 or more.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"luba-the-book-of-ofelia-a-love-rockets-book","title":"Luba: The Book of Ofelia: A Love \u0026 Rockets Book","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Gilbert Hernandez\u003cbr\u003eIn his first graphic novel in two years, Hernandez's The Book of Ofelia begins with Luba, Ofelia and company trying to acclimate to life in America. When Ofelia decides to chronicle her life with Luba in a tell-all book, she discovers inspiration in Luba's young children - the one-armed Casimira, Socorro with the photographic memory, the loner Joselito and the silent Conchita. See Latino soap opera and soft-core porn, with touches of magic-realism, all in one!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/gilbert-hernandez-books\"\u003eGilbert Hernandez\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fantagraphics Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781560976998\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics Books","offers":[{"title":"Very Good — £37.86","offer_id":47901419208881,"sku":"SB-1560976993-C2","price":37.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1560976993.jpg?v=1788843995"},{"product_id":"love-rockets-bk-6-duck-feet-hc-s-a-no-6-love-rockets-hc","title":"Love \u0026 Rockets BK 6 Duck Feet HC (S\/A): No 6 (LOVE \u0026 ROCKETS HC)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/gilbert-hernandez-books\"\u003eGilbert Hernandez\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fantagraphics Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0930193822\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics Books","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £63.02","offer_id":47914968776881,"sku":"SB-0930193822-C3","price":63.02,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0930193822.jpg?v=1789283134"},{"product_id":"love-rockets-book-10-sc-2nd-pr-010-love-and-rockets-graphic-novels","title":"Love \u0026 Rockets Book 10 SC (2nd pr.): 010 (Love and Rockets (Graphic Novels))","description":"\u003cp\u003eLove and Rockets X, Gilbert Hernandez's second full-scale graphic novel, is also his first work set in a modern, recognizably contemporary milieu: late '80s Los Angeles. With close to fifty characters moving in and out of a complex narrative that builds toward, and then away from, a musical event that never happens, Love and Rockets X echoes Robert Altman's 1977 film Nashville not only in structure but also in intent. As Nashville summed up the tensions and conflicts (and hopes and dreams) of America a decade an a half ago, so Love and Rockets X explores Americans' sexual politics, racial politics, personal politics--political politics too, for that matter--at this moment in their history. Love and Rockets X was begun (and takes place) before two of the dominant events of the turn of the decade--the Iraq war and the Rodney King uprisings--but these calamities loom large over the narrative. Their ghostly, implicit presence, and the familiar immediacy of the urban location, contribute to making this some of Hernandez's most harrowing work. A few readers may wish they could transport themselves back to the more comforting rhythms of his earlier \"Heartbreak Soup\" stories set in Palomar, where terror and grief and despair also exist but are simpler, more finite (indeed, at one point, one of the characters in the story literally wills himself back to Palomar)--but ultimately, life in these United States reasserts itself, and almost everyone recovers his or her balance. In a sense, Love and Rockets X is a story about resiliency. Resiliency--and tolerance, too. Although some of the men, women, and children who populate Love and Rockets X act in ways that are despicable, pathetic, or simply stupid and irresponsible, Hernandez withholds judgment. El Fontanel, Love and Rockets' aging post-psychedelic drummer, sums it up when he mutters, in paraphrase of Jean Renoir's famous aphorism from Rules of the Game, \"The one truly terrifying thing in this world is that every man has his reasons.\" Everyone in Love and Rockets X has his or her reasons, and the story's tragedy and comedy ultimately flow from everyone else's misunderstanding, dismissal, or ignorance of those reasons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/gilbert-hernandez-books\"\u003eGilbert Hernandez\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fantagraphics Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781560971016\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics Books","offers":[{"title":"Very Good — £29.20","offer_id":47916478464177,"sku":"SB-1560971010-C2","price":29.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1560971010.jpg?v=1789302748"},{"product_id":"luba-in-america-0-luba-trilogy","title":"Luba in America: 0 (Luba Trilogy)","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Gilbert Hernandez\u003cbr\u003eThe first volume depicting Luba's post-Palomar life and times, this book takes the sometimes confusing strands of Gilbert's stories and weaves them into a satisfying thematic whole, as Luba tries to make sense of her family's lives in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/gilbert-hernandez-books\"\u003eGilbert Hernandez\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fantagraphics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781560974673\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics","offers":[{"title":"Very Good — £17.30","offer_id":47916478595249,"sku":"SB-1560974672-C2","price":17.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1560974672.jpg?v=1789281315"},{"product_id":"maria-m-book-one-0","title":"Maria M.: Book One: 0","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the first book of two, Gilbert Hernandez cartoons a meta “movie adaptation” of his Poison River storyline (complete with drug lords, “shady guardian angels,” torrid affairs and more) starring Fritz as her mother.\u003c\/p\u003eA woman comes to the U.S. from Latin America to escape her shady past, only to fall into a new shady life. After a go at the adult entertainment business, Maria marries a drug lord and her dangerous past is nothing compared to her new life in America. The drug lord’s son, Gorgo, secretly falls in love with her and he watches over her like a guardian angel. Danger and corruption (and of course sex) drive the first half of this love story. Long-time Love and Rockets readers will find the storyline familiar... and that’s because, in an Adaptation-style meta twist, Maria M. is actually the B-movie film adaptation of the life story of Luba’s mother Maria, as previously seen in its “real” version in the classic graphic novel Poison River (available in the Beyond Palomarcollection) ― starring Maria’s own daughter playing her own mother. Confused? Don’t be! Maria M. will work perfectly on its own terms as the kind of violent, sexy pulp tale that Gilbert Hernandez has proven so adept at these past several years, and the “source material” for the story will just provide an extra layer of delight for the cognoscenti.\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/gilbert-hernandez-books\"\u003eGilbert Hernandez\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fantagraphics Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781606997192\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics Books","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £7.29","offer_id":47916673106097,"sku":"SB-160699719X-C3","price":7.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/160699719X.jpg?v=1789808476"},{"product_id":"love-and-rockets-amor-y-cohetes-v-7","title":"Love and Rockets: Amor Y Cohetes v. 7","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume collects the stories 'B.E.M.', 'Rocky and Fumble' 'Somewhere in California' and much more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/gilbert-hernandez-books\"\u003eGilbert Hernandez\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Titan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781845765309\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Titan","offers":[{"title":"Very Good — £19.54","offer_id":47917711294641,"sku":"SB-1845765303-C2","price":19.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1845765303.jpg?v=1789716305"}],"url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/collections\/gilbert-hernandez-books.oembed","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}