Music for Mechanics - Love & Rockets.

Jaime Hernandez; Gilbert Hernandez; Los Bros. Hernandez

ISBN 10: 093019313X / ISBN 13: 9780930193133

Published by Fantagraphics Books (edition Third Edition), 1996

About this Item

The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Seller Inventory # 093019313X-7-1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Music for Mechanics - Love & Rockets.
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books (edition Third Edition)
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 093019313X
• ISBN 13: 9780930193133
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Third Edition.
• Condition: Fair

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Review

Fifty issues--collected into 15 volumes that total 2,000 pages--the Hernandez brothers' Love and Rockets is an enormous achievement that helped to create a new audience for comics. Notable for their strong female characters and their focus on relationships, rather than on traditional comic-book 'action', the stories collected in this volume, and the rest of the series, show how the comic format can be used to create characters and situations as detailed and compelling as in any novel.

Reviewers have compared GilbertHernandez's work--set in the fictional Latin American town of Palomar-- with that of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Robert Altman. Reading his brother Jaime's work--most of which focuses on a group of Southern California Mexican American women--is like reading Tolstoy, if only Tolstoy had written about twenty-something punk girls. Love and Rockets has certainly earned its legendary reputation among the comic-book cognoscenti, and deserves to be read by an even wider audience. Welcome to the world of Los Bros Hernandez.