#Los bros Hernandez

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Love and Rockets by Jaime Hernandez

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Hard to believe that this book I started writing 17 years ago is finally coming out this March!

[godzilla-reads]

Have you ever read the Love & Rockets comics? 👀

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Ten Years of Love & Rockets (September 1992)

Cover by Los Bros Hernandez

Fantagraphics Books

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July 1993. The first collected version of the story that I consider Gilbert Hernandez's magnum opus, originally serialized in LOVE & ROCKETS #31–#39 between 1989 and 1992. A dense multi-character drama set in Los Angeles in the period between the U.S. invasion of Panama and the first Gulf War, it has some ties to Hernandez's ongoing Palomar saga (for instance, one of its central characters is Luba's daughter Maricela, who has fled her mother's homophobia to eke out a marginal existence in L.A. with her girlfriend), but it's certainly the most accessible of his storylines, requiring no particular knowledge of the rest. (Fantagraphics now compiles it in Vol. 6 of its LOVE & ROCKETS collections, BEYOND PALOMAR, along with POISON RIVER, which was published roughly concurrently, but is a very different animal.) The story's exploration of sexuality, race, and racial conflicts stands comparison with the best films from and about that time, without exploitation, sentimentality, or melodrama. While the art is never as pretty as Jaime Hernandez's Locas saga, the storytelling is virtuosic: a master class in how to craft a modern comic book story set in vividly realized real places without ever becoming bogged down in photo-referenced detail, with characters whose most complex emotions are delineated with seemingly effortless precision.

[rustbeltjessie]

From my most recent trip to the library.

[radonx9]

something i've never understood is that, Love and Rockets is this legendary comic book, right? like we all know how influential and important it was to the art of comics making in general and how big a deal that was for like, inspiring alan moore and every other dude in the 80s/90s that made a comic or graphic novel that got huge because "it's not just superheroes" or w/e, yet like....

fucing no one talks about it? or at least no one outside of like old school comics dudes circles or w/e.

Love and Rockets (or at least Jaime's stuff in the 80's) is like the quintessential weird punk rock lesbian girl diy comic that inspired all your favorite, coolest shit and just....... no one is reading it??? or at least not anyone i know and that includes folks that make comics on the regular? i figured the tumblr girlies would love that shit!

i literally could not have made Rosetta Falls if i hadn't read Maggie the Mechanic and gone "oh fuck so THIS is where all this cool stuff i love came from???" shit is weird, man.

[edrake]

Composition Book Chronicles - R.I.P. Ed Piskor

[lil-doodles]

More sketching. Not great but this is why we copy the masters so we can learn from them.

[chasedbybuildings]

Every once in a while I check on my comics collection - mind you, the only one I have in any great amount is Love and Rockets. The first issue I bought was #19 via mail order from a comics shop in 1987, and at that time I just ordered it sight unseen just because I wondered if it had anything to do with the band Love and Rockets. In my defence, V For Vendetta from Warrior magazine a few years before was connected to the band via David J, the bass player, so I thought it was another crossover. Anyway, I was immediately hooked as it was a completely unexpected surprise. That said, Jaime Hernandez's 'Locas' stories were and are still my absolute favourite. I never really got into his brother Beto's work, as the obsession it seemed to have with giant boobs was very weird. More than that, Jaime's artwork and the stories about punks, gigs, and various other things very much related to my life at that time. In 1988 Jaime and Beto were guests at the UK Comic Art Convention in London, so I managed to get some things autographed despite there being no time to talk to them.

And perhaps also of interest, as I keep them in the same box, is an almost complete run of Yummy Fur, which I started buying at the same time as Love and Rockets.

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Jaime Hernandez draws Rocky

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I have some copies of this ‘zine for sale. This was a chapter that got cut from Reading Love and Rockets about the four issues the Brothers did in the early ‘80s. I expanded it to include the whole history of Mister X. Message me if you want to buy one. It’s 44 pages full color.

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"Stuff"

Ten Years of Love & Rockets (September 1992)

Los Bros Hernandez

Fantagraphics Books

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Done by Luna ala Stab Dog at Electric Kitten on Seattle, WA

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All-purpose reaction image.

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“The Death of Speedy Ortiz” by Jaime Hernandez

A critical look back at #TheDeathOfSpeedyOrtiz by #JaimeHernandez #LoveAnd Rockets #Love&Rockets

In honor of Valentine’s Day, I thought it would be fun to look back on a work that happens to have “love” right there in the title: Love and Rockets. Continue reading “The Death of Speedy Ortiz” by Jaime Hernandez