Julio’s Day

It begins in the year 1900 with the scream of a newborn. It ends, 100 pages later, in the year 2000, with the death rattle of a 100-year-old man. The infant and the old man are both Julio. Gibert Hernandez’s Julio’s Day was originally serialised in Love and Rockets Vol.11 but has only now been completed. It is a masterpiece of emotional storytelling tracing one life through a series of carefully crafted, often surprising and always enthralling vignettes.