Word: chascarrillo
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...Jaime continues his tales of Maggie Chascarrillo (a cute Latina with astounding mechanical abilities), her friends and the L.A. milieu. Yes, all the characters have appeared in many previous stories, but if you just ignore the minimal references to backstory, you can enjoy Jaime's renowned storytelling and design sense. In fact, you might try to enjoy the mysterious references as imagination-provoking missing puzzle pieces that will eventually reveal themselves...
...contains at least two tales. In Gilbert's, the main characters all have some connection to the fictional border town of Palomar; his drawings display a warm voluptuousness clearly influenced by the superhero comics of the '60s that the brothers read as boys. Jaime's plots center on Maggie Chascarrillo, a dreamy woman who drifts in and out of relationships among Los Angeles' grownup punk rockers; his lines and compositions are slim and elegant, though he doesn't shy away from crude cartoonishness when a character's emotional state requires...
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