{"id":11516,"date":"2013-10-25T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlines.madeostudio.com\/article\/junot-diaz-release-illustrated-edition-how-you-lose-her\/"},"modified":"2013-10-25T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T15:54:00","slug":"junot-diaz-release-illustrated-edition-how-you-lose-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/article\/junot-diaz-release-illustrated-edition-how-you-lose-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Junot D\u00edaz to Release Illustrated Edition of ‘This Is How You Lose Her’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Junot D\u00edaz to Release Illustrated Edition of ‘This Is How You Lose Her’<\/h3>\n

He's teaming up with award-winning graphic novelist Jaime Hernandez to release a deluxe illustrated version of his best-selling short story collection.<\/p>

\n By Jamilah King<\/span> Oct 25, 2013<\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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Junot\u00a0D\u00edaz is teaming up with award-winning graphic novelist Jaime Hernandez to release a deluxe illustrated version of his best-selling short story collection \"This Is How You Lose Her.\" The release is set to hit bookstores on October 31 and will feature full-page illustrations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Honestly, I am over-the-moon giddy,\" Diaz told Comic Riffs this week<\/span>. \"I’ve got to tell you, I have never been the kind of person who [marvels] at his own work. I’m never over-the-top happy [about it]. I don’t even have parties … or go out for drinks with friends [when a new book of mine comes out].<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Hernandez is known, along with his brothers Gilbert and Mario, as the co-creator of the long-running independent comic \"Love and Rockets,\" which follows a group of Latina teenagers in the California punk scene.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

D\u00edaz talked to the Washington Post<\/a> about being inspired by Hernandez’s work early on in his writing career.\u00a0\"I discovered ‘Love and Rockets’ in 1987, while I was living in Jersey, during my first year of university [Rutgers],\" D\u00edaz said. \"What’s sort of important to me is that Jaime and his brother Gilberto have been at the forefront of representing the U.S.-<\/span><\/span>Latino and the Latino experience in a profound and human and complicated way. Back when everyone else was creating shows, these guys were talking about young, bisexual punk-rock girls from Oxnard. That’s the universe I [recognized].\"<\/span><\/p>\n

Hernandez said he had reservations about doing the project.\u00a0\"It was a little frustrating because this was\u00a0his<\/i>\u00a0book,\" he told The Post<\/a>. \"When doing something for someone else, I babysit it for a while.\" As he read, he made mental sketches; sometimes, he even made physical ones in the margins, \"so I wouldn’t forget a certain detail.\" (Sometimes, he even had to backtrack; he envisioned Flaca as Latina till Diaz’s reveal that she’s white.)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(Above:\u00a0Hernandez’s illustration of Alma from \"This Is How You Lose Her.\" (JUNOT DIAZ & JAIME HERNANDEZ – Riverhead Books )<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n

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