Anything Goes! #4 cover. 1986. Art by George Perez.
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Love & Rockets Volume 2 #8 (Summer 2003)
Cover by Gilbert Hernandez
Fantagraphics Books
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"December" from Love and Rockets 1989 Calendar (Fantagraphics, 1988), artwork by Gilbert Hernandez and Jaime XXX Hernandez
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Love and Rockets by Gilbert Hernandez
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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.
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Love & Rockets #25, March 1988, cover by Gilbert Hernandez
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Ty Templeton, Ken Steacy, Bill Sienkiewicz, Chester Brown, Jaime Hernandez, Gilbert Hernandez: Batman jam comic done at the 1989 Toronto Comic Con.
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Love & Rockets Volume 2 #10 (Spring 2004)
Cover by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez
Fantagraphics Books
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"November" from Love and Rockets 1989 Calendar (Fantagraphics, 1988), main artwork by Gilbert Hernandez, calendar block artwork by Jaime Hernandez
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1982 Love and Rockets Comic House Ad
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Out this week: Love and Rockets #14 (Fantagraphics, $4.99): Gilbert Hernandez and Jaime Hernandez return with four new stories featuring Fritz, Maggie, Princess Animus and more.
See what else is arriving at your local comic shop this week
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