Love & Rockets:; book 2

Hernandez, Jaime; Hernandez, Gilbert

ISBN 10: 0930193253 / ISBN 13: 9780930193256

Published by Fantagraphics Books, Westlake Village, 1986

About this Item

Large perfect bound quarto (black spine and full-color mostly blue illustrated cover; 141 p.: illus; 28 cm. Graphic novel edition // Comic books -- Illustrated books -- Art -- Humor. Crisp, small faint water damage marks to front cover, little shelf wear, else about very good to very good(-). Binding is tight. First edition (presumed; no later dates).

Seller Inventory # 92026

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Love & Rockets:; book 2
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, Westlake Village
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0930193253
• ISBN 13: 9780930193256
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: very good(-)

About this title

Synopsis

Notable for their strong female characters and their focus on relationships . rather than on tradtional comic book "action", the stories collected in this volume show how the comic format can be used to create characters and situations as detailed and compelling as in any novel.

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.