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It begins in the year 1900, with the scream of a newborn. It ends, 100 pages
later, in the year 2000, with the death rattle of a 100-year-old man. The infant
and the old man are both Julio, and Gilbert Hernandez’s Julio’s Day (originally
serialized in Love and Rockets Vol. II but never completed until now) is his latest
graphic novel, a masterpiece of elliptical, emotional storytelling that traces one
life — indeed, one century in a human life — through a series of carefully
crafted, consistently surprising and enthralling vignettes.
There is hope and joy, there is bullying and grief, there is war (so much war — this is after all the 20th century),
there is love, there is heartbreak. While Julio’s Day has some settings and elements in common with Hernandez’s Palomar
cycle (the Central American protagonists and milieu, the vivid characters, the strong familial and social ties), this is a very
much a singular, standalone story that will help cement his position as one of the strongest and most original cartoonists
of this, or any other, century.
9-page excerpt (download 700 KB PDF):
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