Penny Century

Penny Century A Love and Rockets Book

1st Edition

Paperback (20 May 2010)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Picking up right after Perla La Loca, this compilation of stories from Jaime Hernandez' solo comic Penny Century charts the further lives of his beloved 'Locas'. The collection starts off with 'Woah, Nellie!', a unique graphic novella in which Maggie, who has settled with her pro-wrestler aunt for a while, experiences that wild and crazy world first-hand. Then it's back to chills and spills with the old cast of Hopey, Ray, Dominguez and Izzy Ortiz, including Maggie's romantic dream fantasia 'The Race' and the definitive Ray story 'Everybody Loves Me, Baby'.

About the Publisher

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. By the early 1980s, Fantagraphics found itself at the forefront of the burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium as eloquent and expressive as the more established popular arts of film, literature, poetry, et al. Fantagraphics quickly established a reputation as an advocacy publisher that specialized in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that traditional comics corporations who dealt almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy either didn?t know existed or wouldn?t touch: serious, dramatic, historical, journalistic, political, and satirical work by a new generation of alternative cartoonists as well as many artists who gained prominence as part of the seminal underground comix movement of the '60s. Fantagraphics has since gained an international reputation for its literate and audacious editorial standards and its exacting production values.

Book information

ISBN: 9781606993422
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics Books
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Edition
DEWEY: 741.5973
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 249
Weight: 609g
Height: 235mm
Width: 191mm
Spine width: 18mm