Julio's Day Anna Mills and immediacy set Davis apart

and immediacy set Davis apart not only as one of the premier cartoonists

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high-contrast style he used in his best-known work

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Julio's Day Anna Mills and immediacy set Davis apartBy Gilbert Hernandez. Published by Fantagraphics. Hardcover, 112 pages, B&W, 2013. Gilbert Hernandez traces the life of a 100 year old man from cradle to grave in this fictional graphic novel. 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, and Gilbert Hernandez's Julio's Day is his latest graphic novel, a