Summary
AMAZON.COM’S BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL OF 2013!
“Marble Season sometimes feels like one long, seamless shot of budding love, brimming violence and suddenly struck friendships. This is a highly physical, meta-Peanuts suburban universe in which adults are off-camera, but navigating other kids is plenty harrowing.” -Washington Post Best Comics of 2013
The untold coming-of-age story from a contemporary comics master
Marble Season is the semiau…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781770460867 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1770460861 |
| Author: | Gilbert Hernandez |
| Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Imprint: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 16 April 2013 |
| Weight: | 653g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 215mm x 278mm |
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Critics Review
“Hernandez is brilliant on the particular embarrassments of growing up … and on the way its disappointments, however trivial, linger into adulthood … Marble Season is a treat: beady, nostalgic and sometimes unexpectedly piercing.” –Guardian
“Set in a lower-middle-class multiracial Southwestern suburb in the early 1960s, Marble Season is a wonderfully evocative account of a group of kids for whom popular culture… serve as both a lingua franca and a not wholly reliable guide to the mysteries of social life…in Marble Season, the slow encroachment of adolescence, both a threat and a promise, gives the work emotional heft.” –The Globe & Mail
“In this semi-autobiographical tale, Mr. Hernandez captures the wonder of childhood – the joy of imagination, an appreciation for comic books and all the ultimately petty but seemingly world-shattering trials and tribulations of friendships during that time in one’s life.” –New York Times
Gilbert Hernandez
Gilbert Hernandez was born in 1957 in Oxnard, California, a middle child in a family of six children. Alongside his brothers Jaime and Mario, Gilbert co-created and contributed to the acclaimed comic book series Love and Rockets, which celebrates its 45th anniversary in 2026. Hernandez was inducted into the Eisner Hall of Fame in 2017.
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