Julio's Day
Gilbert Hernandez traces the life of a 100-year-old man from cradle to grave in this fictional graphic novel.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...
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Gilbert Hernandez traces the life of a 100-year-old man from cradle to grave in this fictional graphic novel.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. Yes
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781606996065 (1606996061)
ASIN: 1606996061
Publish date: January 18th 2013
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Pages no: 100
Edition language: English
after I read this I spent a couple minutes googling "blue worm poisioning" in many variations to see if it was actually a thing.
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