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 semiautobiographical novel by the acclaimed
cartoonist Gilbert Hernandez, author of the epic masterpiece Palomar
and cocreator, with his brothers, Jaime and Mario, of the groundbreaking
Love and Rockets comic book series. Marble Season is his first book
with Drawn & Quarterly, and one of the most anticipated books of 2013.
It tells the untold stories from the early years of these American
comics legends, but also portrays the reality of life in a large family
in suburban 1960s California. Pop-culture references-TV shows, comic
books, and music-saturate this evocative story of a young family
navigating cultural and neighborhood norms set against the golden age of
the American dream and the silver age of comics.
Middle child Huey stages Captain America plays and treasures his older
brother's comic book collection almost as much as his approval. Marble
Season subtly and deftly details how the innocent, joyfully creative
play that children engage in (shooting marbles, backyard performances,
and organizing treasure hunts) changes as they grow older and encounter
name-calling naysayers, abusive bullies, and the value judgments of
other kids. An all-ages story, Marble Season masterfully explores the
redemptive and timeless power of storytelling and role play in
childhood, making it a coming-of-age story that is as resonant with the
children of today as with the children of the sixties.
