
Lovers and Haters
by Gilbert Hernandez
Title:
Lovers and Haters
Author:
Gilbert Hernandez
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
120 pages, 120 Illustrations
Publisher:
Fantagraphics
ISBN-13:
9798875000980
EAN:
9798875000980
Publication Date:
11/11/2025
Classifications:
Graphic Novels, Comic Books, Manga, Cartoons
Weight (g):
510
Dimensions (mm):
254 x 191 x 11
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
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 spectre 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.














