Heartbreak Soup and Other Stories

Beto's Heartbreak Soup and Other Stories collects the earliest installments of his acclaimed Locas saga, originally serialized in Love and Rockets. Published by Fantagraphics in 1987, this single-issue volume introduces the vibrant, rough-and-tumble world of Palomar—a fictional Latin American village—through the intertwined lives of its residents, from the formidable Luba to the adventurous young Maggie and Hopey. As the foundational text of Beto's sprawling, humanist narrative, it remains a touchstone of alternative comics for its raw, intimate storytelling and its indelible portrait of community.