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Creator Gilbert Hernandez Date 2013 | 3.6/5 Goodreads Originally published 2013 Publisher Drawn and Quarterly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Marble Season is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Gilbert Hernandez, published by Drawn and Quarterly in 2013.
The story is set in the 1960s and focuses on Huey, the middle of three Mexican-American brothers. It deals with typical childhood concerns, such as the games they play, the groups they belong to, and obsessions with pop culture. As in the Peanuts comic strip, adults are always outside the panels. Much as in Hernandez's Palomar stories, the narrative wanders in and out of various threads and frequently shifts focus between scenes and characters. The artwork is simple, and the story unfolds in a grid of six panels to the page.
In contrast to the sexually explicit, violent work on which his reputation rests, Hernandez wanted to create a book that was appropriate for young readers, and drew much of the narrative from his own childhood memories.