Perla La Loca (Love and Rockets)

Hernandez, Jaime

ISBN 10: 156097883X / ISBN 13: 9781560978831

Published by Fantagraphics Books, 2015

About this Item

Softcover without dust jacket. Ex-Library book with appropriate stamps, stickers and markings. Book tape to spine. Minimal wear to corners and edges. Pages clean and unmarked with B & W illustrations to panels.

This story begins with the graphic novel Wigwam Am, in which Maggie, Hopey and their friends prowl Hoppers, the East Coast, and points between, trying to recapture the carefree spirit of their earlier days--or at least hook up with one another. In the second half, more lost than ever, Maggie wanders from a one-laundromat town in Texas to her wrestling aunt's "Camp Vicki"; in one she contends with hooker who has it out for her, and in the other, she fends off the amorous advances of a wrestling champ-to-be. Plus; a rousing free-for-all slugfest as the wrestlers Rena Titanon and El Diablo facing off against a sextet of thugs.and the long-delayed reunion of Maggie and Hopey! These stories originally appeared in Love and Rockets Vol. 1 #33-50.

Seller Inventory # 13922

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Perla La Loca (Love and Rockets)
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 156097883X
• ISBN 13: 9781560978831
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 2nd Printing
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Dimensions: 2.54W x 17.78H x 22.86D centimeters 2.54 centimeters width by 17.78 centimeters height by 22.86 centimeters depth
• Weight: 680 grams

About this title

Synopsis

In these classic "Locas" stories, Jaime drops a narrative bomb on Hopey (and us) in "Wigwam Bam"; Maggie contends with her inner demons, a murderous hooker, and an amorous lady wrestler; and Maggie, getting married?

About the Author

Jaime Hernandez was one of six siblings born and raised in Oxnard, California. His mother passed down a love of comics, which for Jaime became a passion rivaled only by his interest in the burgeoning punk rock scene of 1970s Southern California. Together with his brothers Gilbert and Mario, Jaime co-created the ongoing comic book series Love and Rockets in 1981, which Gilbert and Jaime continue to both write and draw to this day. Jaime’s work began as a perfect (if unlikely) synthesis of the anarchistic, do-it-yourself aesthetic of the punk scene and an elegant cartooning style that recalled masters such as Charles M. Schulz and Alex Toth. Love and Rockets has evolved into one of the great bodies of American literary fiction, spanning five decades and countless high-water marks in the medium’s history. In 2016, Hernandez won the prestigious Los Angeles Times Book Prize for his graphic novel, The Love Bunglers. In 2017, he (along with Gilbert) was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame, and, in 2018, he released his first children’s book, the Aesop Book Prize-winning The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America. He is a lifelong Angeleno.