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. Gibert Hernandez's Julio's Day was originally serialised in Love and Rockets Vol.11 but has only now been completed. It is a masterpiece of emotional storytelling tracing one life through a series of carefully crafted, often surprising and always enthralling vignettes.
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By Macbeth
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Julio's Day is one hundred pages long, and covers a span of one hundred years, tracing the life of the book's eponymous character, the lives of those around him, and the century they live through. It is superbly and economically told: characters are realised and its storyline revealed in the fewest of words, in an expression, in the reveal of the often ominous central American landscape that forms the backdrop to their lives. Nothing is obvious here. It is surprising and moving and, in its unflashy way, groundbreaking. Gilbert Hernandez has produced many great works, but this is a masterpiece, and that's not a term I use lightly. Unreservedly recommended.
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Gilbert Hernandez is probably best know as the clumsy half of the "Love and Rockets" series. I say clumsy because, while his work frequently touches greatness, it is often stumbles around in incoherence, random acts of terrible violence, and sexual imagery that verges on offensive. While Jaime's stories are clean and precise (like his line work), Gilbert's often stumble about looking for a theme, or (if they have a theme) a way of delivering it. Gilbert is obviously the "difficult" child.
And I buy them all anyway, because even a second-rate Gilbert is better than almost everyone else in the field.
Because it's the gems like "Julio's Day" that make it worthwhile.
This is probably his best work since the "Palomar" series. Encompassing the 100 year life of Julio (in a 100 pages) it is an astonishing series of vignettes that are often funny, and frequently heartbreaking. All the stylistic an aesthetic nuances that annoy me in his other work are still here - but in "Julio's Day" they work perfectly. It's as if the last ten years of Gilbert's work (and a substantial and very respectable body of work it is) have suddenly paid of in this wonderful example of diamond-hard truth.
I've read everything he's done twice, but this is one I will be reading over and over.
And I buy them all anyway, because even a second-rate Gilbert is better than almost everyone else in the field.
Because it's the gems like "Julio's Day" that make it worthwhile.
This is probably his best work since the "Palomar" series. Encompassing the 100 year life of Julio (in a 100 pages) it is an astonishing series of vignettes that are often funny, and frequently heartbreaking. All the stylistic an aesthetic nuances that annoy me in his other work are still here - but in "Julio's Day" they work perfectly. It's as if the last ten years of Gilbert's work (and a substantial and very respectable body of work it is) have suddenly paid of in this wonderful example of diamond-hard truth.
I've read everything he's done twice, but this is one I will be reading over and over.
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