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Lovers and haters : a Love and Rockets book / Gilbert Hernandez.

Van Pelt Library PN6728.L695 H47 2025
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hernandez, Gilbert, author, artist.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Motion picture actors and actresses--Comic books, strips, etc.
Motion picture actors and actresses.
Celebrity impersonators--Comic books, strips, etc.
Celebrity impersonators.
Female impersonators--Comic books, strips, etc.
Female impersonators.
Mothers and daughters--Comic books, strips, etc.
Mothers and daughters.
Families--Comic books, strips, etc.
Families.
Interpersonal relations--Comic books, strips, etc.
Interpersonal relations.
Cult films--Comic books, strips, etc.
Cult films.
Genre:
Comics (Graphic works)
Graphic novels.
Physical Description:
116 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Other Title:
Love and Rockets book
Place of Publication:
Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books Inc., [2025]
Summary:
"In the next chapter of the Palomar saga, actress Fritz contends with a sex cult, mad scientists, and her inner demons. The first story collection in Gilbert Hernandez's Palomar saga to take place after the events of 2010's High Soft Lisp is torn from the pages of Love and Rockets: New Stories, Love and Rockets Vol. IV, and Psychodrama Illustrated--and expanded with 14 new pages! In Lovers and Haters, 50-year-old cult movie actress Fritz, in addition to her alcoholism and the ups and downs of her career, must also contend with a controlling lover, Danny; a jealous rival, Mila; a score of younger Fritz imitators, a sex cult; and mad scientists. Also in her orbit is her niece, Killer (sometimes literally, as seen in a Doctor Who-inspired TV show), a teen actress trying to launch a singing career while solving math problems. The specter of Fritz's mother, Maria -- also a cult movie actress -- haunts them all with her beauty from beyond the grave. With a sprawling cast, Lovers and Haters is about mothers and daughters, aunts and nieces, complex and often toxic relationships, artists and exploiters, personas and obsessions. It reads like an X-rated The Substance mixed with Mommy Dearest and Performance, with an added dash of giallo"--Publisher's website.
Notes:
Lovers and Haters: A Love and Rockets Book (Vol. 31 in The Complete Love and Rockets) is expanded from Love and Rockets Vol. III: New Stories #7 (2015) and #8 (2016), Love and Rockets Vol. IV #1 (October 2016) and #3 (November 2017), and Psychodrama Illustrated #1 (February 2020) and #5 (July 2022).
ISBN:
9798875000980
OCLC:
1521846836

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