The Death of Speedy: The Complete Love and Rockets, Vol. 7

Hernandez, Jaime

ISBN 10: 1560970030 / ISBN 13: 9781560970033

Published by Fantagraphics, 1989

About this Item

130pp. Text and artwork is clean on unmarked, uncreased pages. Hinges are secure, spine is unbroken, textblock is square with pointed corners. Minimal overall shelf/timewear, coverwear, cover edgewear, faint foxing on textblock head.

Seller Inventory # 110588

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Death of Speedy: The Complete Love and Rockets, Vol. 7
• Publisher: Fantagraphics
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1560970030
• ISBN 13: 9781560970033
• Binding: 4To Softcover
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • GRAPHIC NOVELS
  • COMICS

About this title

Synopsis

Book by Jaime Hernandez, Gilbert Hernandez, Los Bros. Hernandez

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 Gilbert Hernandez'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.