Of all the works produced by Hernandez outside the Love And Rockets imprimatur (Girl Crazy; Grip; Yeah!, his airy collaboration with Peter Bagge), Sloth is arguably the cartoonist's most self-realized work to date: at turns funny and creepy, imaginative yet packed with enough believable desperation to fill the town of Winesburg, Ohio. Clearly, the book's title does not apply to its creator, who happily and actively remains one of our great living graphic storytellers.
Bill Sherman is the Comics & Graphic Novels review editor for Blogcritics. With his lovely wife Rebecca Fox, he has recently co-authored a sudsy size acceptance novel entitled Measure By Measure.
Sloth
Troubled teenager Miguel Torres has had it with life. The only alternative he sees is to willfully slip into a coma. But one year later, Miguel becomes a walking urban legend after he wakes up virtually ...
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1 - Natalie Bennett
This article has been selected for syndication to Advance.net, which is affiliated with newspapers around the United States. Nice work!