Is This How You See Me?: A Locas Story [Hardcover]

Maggie and Hopey leave their significant others at home and take a weekend road trip to go to a punk scene reunion in their old neighborhood. Threaded throughout are flashbacks to 1979, during the formative stages in their lifelong relationship, as the perceived invincibility of youth is juxtaposed against all of the love, heartbreak, and self-awareness that comes with lives actually lived. Serialized over the past four years inIn the follow-up to the LA Book Prize-winning A poignant reintroduction to two beloved characters and their long-standing relationship. This is an aching graphic novel about regret and growing older, and the ability  or inability  to confront the past. While longtime fans will discover extra levels of joy and regret in this installment, even those who pick this up as their introduction to the series will be moved by its tale of growing older without necessarily growing up. This book is full of innocence and experience, punk haircuts, middle-aged moshing, old movies, cigarettes and bruised hearts, all sketched out in black and white pen lines that throb with emotion and desire and anger and pain and resignation and acceptance. Hernandez is beloved by fans for creating complex, strong women who drive the narratives of his 'Locas' stories.? A moving story about the lives of two longtime friends. A must-read for even the most casual A new volume of Another transcendent contribution to the