The 40-year-old series began in 1980 as a self-published book that was soon picked up by Fantagraphics.
Two years in, Gilbert Hernandez gave the world “Heartbreak Soup,” a story that kicked off Palomar, a long-running exploration of magical realism in a Latin American village of the same name.
It’s Hernandez’s longest-running storyline, and the one which which he has become most closely associated.
Four decades later, the artist continues to grow and experiment, as evidenced by the recently released Hypnotwist/Scarlet by Starlight, a collection of two graphic novellas that embrace dramatically different forms of storytelling.