Gilbert Hernandez

Cool, I should read it.

Then from Zidanec13, a comment on episode 305, which we republished in August 2023, in which Kumar, Tom Spurgeon, and I talked about Gilbert Hernandez's Love and Rockets work.

He writes, It's dense, and some of the gangster characters get a little lost on me, but my god, I couldn't put it down.

I read Jaime first, and I already thought he was the best American comic writer.

Then I read Gilbert.

I'm in awe that he's even better than his bro in terms of story.

Yeah, Jaime beats him in art, but Jaime beats everyone there in that department, ha ha.

It does.

The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth González James, Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García and Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories by Gilbert Hernández.

The sheer poetry and bizarre imagery of these titles is astounding.

Truffle pig, people of paper, heartbreak soup.

Yeah, he came in later.

Mr. X was Gilbert Hernandez and Mario Hernandez.

initially

yeah a lot of people and then dean modder did it a lot of creators worked on that book