To a very great extent, Love and Rockets is synonymous with the Locas and Palomar storylines and characters ... but there was always more to L&R than that. This volume of The Complete Love and Rockets Library, written and drawn by all three Hernandez brothers, collects all the stories that didn't fit into the Locas and Palomar storylines from that classic first, 50-issue run. It's a dizzying array of styles, genres, and approaches that re-confirms these groundbreaking cartoonists' place in the history of comics. It begins with Gilbert's original 40-page sci-fi epic "BEM" from 1981's self-published first issue of Love and Rockets, featuring a very different Luba and a much looser, Heavy Metal and Marvel Comics-inspired way of storytelling. Other stories include Jaime's charming "Rocky and Fumble" series starring a planet-hopping girl and her robot; stunning one-shots such as Gilbert's Frida Kahlo biography and his shocking autobiographical fantasia "My Love Book"; Mario's genre thrillers which take place "Somewhere in California"; Gilbert's brutally dystopian "Errata Stigmata"; the playful "Hernandez Satyricon," with Gilbert drawing Jaime's characters, and "War Paint," with Jaime trying out Palomar; Gilbert's light-hearted "Music for Monsters" starring Bang and Inez; and even a fantastical "non-continuity" Maggie and Hopey story "Easter Hunt" by Jaime that didn't fit into the other books.

Author: Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Mario Hernandez
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: 06/01/2008
Series: Love & Rockets
Pages: 283
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 9.14h x 7.51w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9781560979265


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/14/2008 pg. 50
New York Times Book Review 10/19/2008 pg. 25

About the Author
Hernandez, Gilbert: - Gilbert Hernandez lives in Las Vegas, NV, with his wife and daughter. He is co-creator of the long-running, award-winning, and critically acclaimed series Love and Rockets.Hernandez, Mario: - Mario Hernandez lives in San Francisco, CA with his wife and children.Hernandez, Gilbert: - Gilbert Hernandez is considered one of our greatest living cartoonists. He co-created the iconic series Love and Rockets, which has been ongoing since 1982, and authored numerous other comics and graphic novels, one of the greatest bodies of work the medium has ever seen. Raised in Oxnard, CA, Hernandez lives with his family in Las Vegas, NV.
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