The Love and Rockets Companion

The Love and Rockets Companion

Author: Marc Sobel

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

Published: 2013-08-03

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1606995790

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The Love and Rockets Companion: 30 Years (and Counting) contains three incredibly in-depth and candid interviews with creators Gilbert, Jaime and Mario Hernandez: one conducted by writer Neil Gaiman (Coraline); one conducted some six years into the comic’s run by longtime L&R publisher Gary Groth; and one conducted by the book’s author, spanning Gilbert’s, Jaime’s and Mario’s careers, and looking to the future of the ongoing series, with a follow-up conversation with Groth. This book has foldout family trees for both Gilbert’s Palomar and Jaime’s Locas storylines; unpublished art; a character glossary (which is handy, considering that Gilbert alone has created 50+ characters!); highlights from the original series’ anarchic letters columns; timelines; and the most wide-ranging Hernandez Brothers bibliography ever compiled, including album and DVD covers, posters and more.


Amor y Cohetes

Amor y Cohetes

Author: Gilbert Hernandez

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

Published: 2008-05-21

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1560979267

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To a very great extent, Love and Rockets is synonymous with Hoppers' Maggie & Hopey and Palomar's Luba & Carmen & Heraclio & Tonantzin... but there was always more to L and R than that. Amor y Cohetes finally collects together in one convenient package all the non-Maggie and non-Palomar stories by all three Hernandez Brothers from that classic first, 50-issue Love and Rockets series—a dizzying array of styles and approaches that re-confirms these groundbreaking cartoonists' place in the history of comics.


Love and Rockets

Love and Rockets

Author: Gilbert Hernandez

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

Published: 2013-09-21

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1606995987

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Five women stand in a police lineup; four of them are garishly dressed, impressively endowed superwomen ― perfectly normal, because this is, after all, the cover of a comic book. A closer look, however, reveals a fifth woman who seems thoroughly out of place ― mousy, in bathrobe and curlers, smoking a cigarette, she appears to have been suddenly yanked from her breakfast table. Surely, this diminutive, dowdy woman is here by mistake ― or is she? From the very first cover of the very first issue of Love and Rockets in 1982, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez have created artwork that has subverted, contradicted and celebrated the history of the comic book medium, inverting familiar tropes and creating some of the most iconic images in comics over the past three and a half decades, inviting fans and readers into their world. Amazingly, many of the covers created by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez for the various iterations of Love and Rockets over the past 35 years have never been collected or have only been reprinted in black-and-white. Love and Rockets: The Covers will not only rectify this problem, but present them without trade dress (logos, marketing hype, etc.), allowing the original cover illustrations to communicate on their own.


The Love and Rockets Reader

The Love and Rockets Reader

Author: Marc Sobel

Publisher:

Published: 2014-01-25

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781606995921

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The Love and Rockets Reader: From Hoppers to Palomar started as a series ofblog posts attempting to answer the deceptively simple question: "whatmakes Love and Rockets so great?" Over the next six years, it quickly grewinto a meticulously researched study containing in-depth analysis of andcommentary on the series. Author Marc Sobel delves into the comics'themes, symbols and influences, as well as the Hernandez Brothers'artistic development. Organized into seven main chapters, one for each ofthe first seven Love and Rockets trade paperback collections (representing theoriginal Love and Rockets Vol. I), the book also includes: the comics'origins in the Hernandez Brothers' roots, such as their involvement in theSouthern California punk scene, their adventures in self-publishing, and theirvital partnership with Fantagraphics; an examination of the HernandezBrothers' ill-fated Mister X (a science-fiction series) collaboration; areview of Mario's solo book, Brain Capers; and a paradigm-changinganalysis of Gilbert's vastly underappreciated erotic graphic novel,Birdland. As an "extra," The Love and Rockets Reader also includesJaime's very first published work: the never-before-reprinted four-pagestory, "Another Time, Another Place," from 1977. An essentialresource for scholars and enthusiasts alike, this book will enlighten and deepeneven the most ardent fans' appreciation of this groundbreakingseries.


LOCAS

LOCAS

Author: Jaime Hernandez

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 712

ISBN-13:

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When Mexican-American rock girl Maggie Chascarrillo and feisty anti-authoritarian punkette Hopey Glass first meet, a turbulent yet enduring relationship is born.


Chance in Hell

Chance in Hell

Author: Gilbert Hernandez

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

Published: 2007-09-17

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1560978333

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Chance in Hell tells the story about a little orphan girl who lives in the slum of slums. Nobody knows who she is or where she's from, but her fellow shantytown inhabitants collectively look over her. The three-act story follows our heroine as she is adopted by a decent man who raises her well, and she eventually marries a kind, well-to-do man, only to discover that she can't relate to the good life and the comforts it provides. This is the first in a series of standalone stories depicting the fictional filmography of Gilbert's Love and Rockets character, the B-movie actress Fritz.


Music for Mechanics

Music for Mechanics

Author: Bros Hernandez

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780930193133

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Now in its sixth printing, this is a collection that contains the legendary first two issues of the renowned series Love and Rockets. Described by the New Musical Express as 'a devastating realisation of the potential of the comic book medium', Love and Rockets is a saga spanning nearly 20 books, which places Los Bros Hernandez on a par with a modern day Zola.


Rocket Town

Rocket Town

Author: Bob Logan

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 1402241860

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Follows an astronaut and his dog as they travel through Rocket Town looking for the perfect rocket.


Hypnotwist/Scarlet by Starlight

Hypnotwist/Scarlet by Starlight

Author: Gilbert Hernandez

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

Published: 2021-02-23

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 1683962044

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This double-feature collects two Gilbert Hernandez graphic novellas in one! In the Eisner Award-winning "Hypnotwist," a woman wanders through a series of increasingly surreal scenes, confronting motherhood, alcoholism, a sinister smiley face, and worse fates. Illustrated psychodrama as you like it! Meanwhile, in "Scarlet by Starlight": Imagine a B-movie cross between Star Trek and Heart of Darkness. When a primitive alien fauna becomes infatuated with its colonizer, a fragile ecosystem threatens to crumble under fear and violence.


That Time of Year

That Time of Year

Author: Garrison Keillor

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2020-12-01

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1951627709

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With the warmth and humor we've come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story. In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and, seeing three good friends die young, turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks, he founded A Prairie Home Companion and put himself in line for a good life, including mistakes, regrets, and a few medical adventures. PHC lasted forty-two years, 1,557 shows, and enjoyed the freedom to do as it pleased for three or four million listeners every Saturday at 5 p.m. Central. He got to sing with Emmylou Harris and Renée Fleming and once sang two songs to the U.S. Supreme Court. He played a private eye and a cowboy, gave the news from his hometown, Lake Wobegon, and met Somali cabdrivers who’d learned English from listening to the show. He wrote bestselling novels, won a Grammy and a National Humanities Medal, and made a movie with Robert Altman with an alarming amount of improvisation. He says, “I was unemployable and managed to invent work for myself that I loved all my life, and on top of that I married well. That’s the secret, work and love. And I chose the right ancestors, impoverished Scots and Yorkshire farmers, good workers. I’m heading for eighty, and I still get up to write before dawn every day.”