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Cover: Gilbert Hernandez

Luba #5

Oct 2000 · Fantagraphics · 3.50 USD; 5.25 CAD
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“Kisses for Pipo”

In "Kisses for Pipo," Gilbert Hernandez delivers a quiet yet charged chapter in the lives of Luba’s children, Socorro and Joselito, as their impulsive adventure takes them far from home. When the siblings steal a neighbor’s car to follow Luba one night, their journey into the countryside ends in a crash—forcing them to rely on a stranger, Hector, to get back before their mother returns. With Hernandez’s signature blend of intimacy and understated tension, the story captures the weight of small choices and the fragile line between rebellion and belonging, all rendered in his distinctive, expressive style.

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writer, artist, inker, letterer Gilbert Hernandez
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Luba's kids, Socorro and Joselito, steal the neighbour's car so they can follow Luba one night. They end up crashing it in the countryside, and have to sneak a ride back to town. There they have to ask a stranger (Hector) to help them make it the rest of the way, and arrive home just before Luba.

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