Julio's Day

"We’ve seen the character Julio before — he was introduced in the second volume of Gilbert and Jamie Hernandez’s groundbreaking “Love and Rockets” series. Here, Gilbert Hernandez gives him the spotlight, chronicling the events of his singular life from his birth in the year 1900 to his death 100 years later. In between, there are pain and loss, war and disease, and — most movingly — throttled sexual desire that Julio cannot bring himself to acknowledge, much less name. With a quiet, carefully layered mastery, Hernandez shows us the times changing around Julio, while Julio remains unchanged — and alone."