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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 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.
- This Fantagraphics titles was chosen by NPR as among the best books of 2013.
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Gilbert Hernandez lives in Las Vegas, NV, with his wife and daughter. He is co-creator of the long-running, award-winning, and critically acclaimed series Love and Rockets.
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Because day in it means a lifetime (like what we mean by saying, in Grandma’s day), the title of this spare graphic novel denotes an entire century. Julio Reyes is born in 1900 and dies in the same bed in 2000. We see him as infant, toddler, first-grader, bigger boy, and young, middle-aged, old, and finally, very old man. He far outlives his feisty sister and handsome-brat brother. He never marries, and his closest relationships are with other males, though when sex apparently impinges on one of them, he abandons it. Moreover, he can’t stomach his great, great nephew’s homosexuality. For lengthy stretches of his story, he’s unspeaking, in the background, nowhere around as we watch the more dramatic lives of friends and family flare in bizarre illness and death, in madness and violence, and in love, at home more than in the wars and wanderings they are called to. All along, he lives with his mother, the still center of a century-long family storm that Hernandez’s mastery of comics somehow makes somberly beautiful. --Ray Olson
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- PublisherFantagraphics
- Publication date2013
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- ISBN 13 9781606996065
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