Our childhood feels timeless, especially when you’re older and looking back at it. But even when you are smack dab in the middle of it, the days go on forever and blend together. You remember those times and you know everything happened on different days, maybe even different years, but all of those experiences exist in an eternal day that never ended. In Marble Season, that’s how Gilbert Hernandez tells Huey’s story. It hardly feels like any time passes even though Hernandez very deliberately but quietly shows us all of the different days of Huey’s childhood. He draws all of these visual clues that show us that we’re constantly moving forward in time, one experience at a time. The weather changes. Characters wear different clothes. Friendships evolve. While it may seem like all of the days blend together, Hernandez that the days of our childhood were just as limited as our time now. And maybe we need to learn to cherish our time and memories of today just like we do our childhood.
