Love And Rockets: New Stories No. 7 (LOVE AND ROCKETS NEW STORIES TP) - Softcover

Hernandez, Gilbert; Hernandez, Jaime

Softcover

ISBN 10: 160699770X ISBN 13: 9781606997703

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, 2015

Synopsis

The seventh annual volume of Love and Rockets: New Stories, the most important and enduring alternative comics series in the history of the medium, finds Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez writing and drawing at the top of their game. In Jaime’s stories, Maggie and Hopey take a much-needed break from their humdrum domestic lives and go on a road trip to visit a “sick friend.” And, when the cat’s away, Ray visits some old, sick friends of his own. Plus Tonta’s nutty family! Gilbert offers a suite of stories, including “The Magic Voyage of Aladdin,” a sweeping epic of derring-do in which Morgan Le Fey (Fritz) teams up with Aladdin to stop the evil Circle from obtaining the magic lamp; “The Golem Suit,” a WWII sci-fi thriller starring “Killer”; and “Daughters and Mothers and Daughters,” in which flashbacks to Luba’s mother Maria reveal how ugly secrets of the past affect their family today.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Jaime Hernandez is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning cartoonist and a lifelong Los Angelean.

Review

“...Jaime reunites lifelong pals Maggie and Hopey for a road trip, and Gilbert returns briefly to the fictional Latin American village of Palomar and casts his sometimes-actress character Fritz in a goofy costume epic featuring Aladdin and a spaceship. The familiar cast members and the Hernandez brothers’ respective graphic strengths ― Jaime’s economically elegant cartooning and Gilbert’s bold designs and imaginative characterizations ― will leave fans satisfied and eager for next year’s installment.”
- Gordon Flagg, Booklist

“Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez have crafted one of the most salient, evocative modern romantic dramas in comics, if not any medium.”
- Sean Edgar, Paste

“The renowned Hernandez brothers continue this acclaimed series after more than three decades of fictional dramas and black comedies. ... The art, as always, is top-notch, black and white art rendering the characters as hugely expressive and lovable. (Starred Review)”
- Publishers Weekly

“Another strong, strong, strong, strong, strong issue.”
- Tom Spurgeon, The Comics Reporter

“The latest Love & Rockets: New Stories is... comfortable and deeply pleasurable -- and often startling -- in the ways that master cartoonists Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez have done for over thirty years: the art is gorgeous, the storytelling clear and perfectly realized, the characters sketched acutely and smartly, with wonderful surprises and complex subtexts displaying themselves seemingly around every turn.”
- Jason Sacks, Comics Bulletin

“The great thing is that Love and Rockets isn’t stuck in time; it’s not telling the same stories over and over. Its characters have been allowed to grow up, learn and develop.”
- Scott Cederlund, Panel Patter

“...[W]hat we have here is a comic so insanely aflame with creative fire that we have to break the Emergency Glass and throw the word ART! at it. No doubt, no doubt at all, The Bros Hernandez are still simply the best...”
- John Kane, The Savage Critics

About this edition

• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 160699770X
• ISBN 13: 9781606997703
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100