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[...]
Comics luminary Gilbert Hernandez envisions his strangest, most thrilling future yet! A drug called "spin" offers the wildest trip imaginable, followed by its users' inevitable, rapid deterioration into undead flesh-eaters. Despite the side effect, the drug is so popular that the human population is[...]
A latest volume of complete Love & Rockets tales concludes the original 1982-1996 fifty-issue run, in a volume of non-Maggie and non-Palomar pieces that includes such entries as "BEM," "Rocky and Fumble," and "Music for Monsters." Original.[...]
In 1982, brothers Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez created "Love & Rockets", an astonishing mixture of magical realism, science fiction, and meditations on the human condition which became one of the most critically acclaimed series of all time.Now, all the stories about Palomar or Maggie and Hopey are c[...]
How do you follow up a one-two punch like Jaime Hernandez 's stunning two-part masterpiece The Love Bunglers from LRNS #3 and #4, which sent Maggie and Ray 's relationship in a startling new direction, as well as providing some mind-blowing revelations about Maggie 's (and her family s) past? If you[...]
Set against the golden age of the American dream and the silver age of comics, and awash with pop-culture references - TV shows, comic books, super-heroes and music, this title details how their innocent, joyfully creative play changes as they grow older and encounter name-calling, abusive bullies, [...]
The first volume in a chronological series featuring the complete first series of fifty issues from the celebrated comic book series Love & Rockets includes the provocative "Heartbreak Soup" stories about the inhabitants of Palomar, a small village in a Central American country. Original.[...]
A single-volume release of the Love & Rockets creator's two major stand-alone graphic novels includes "Poison River," in which Luba emerges from her pre-Palomar youth to marry a gangster and uncover secrets about her mother, and "Love & Rockets X," in which characters from diverse walks of life stru[...]
There's a peeping tom prowling the neighborhood. Eyewitness reports vary, but one thing is agreed upon: he wears a Devil mask. This is the story of Val Castillo, a promising gymnast with a strange hobby. She is secretly the neighborhood peeping tom. At first she is alone in this, but when a male fri[...]
A rare foray into all-ages work, The Adventures of Venus was Gilbert Hernandez s contribution to the kids anthology Measles which he edited in 1999 and 2000. This super-affordable little hardcover collects all the previously uncollected Venus stories from Measles in which Luba s niece creates and co[...]
It begins in the year 1900, with the scream of a newborn. It ends, 100 pages later, in the year 2000, with the death rattle of a 100-year-old man. The infant and the old man are both Julio, and Gilbert Hernandez s Julio s Day (originally serialized in Love and Rockets Vol. II but never completed unt[...]
New Tales of Old Palomar is Gilbert Hernandez s much-anticipated return to the small Central American town of Palomar, more than a decade after his last Heartbreak Soup story. Originally released as a three-issue magazine series in the acclaimed international Ignatz format, New Tales Old Palomar is [...]
Gilbert Hernandez s sprawling family saga focuses on the United States, where newly immigrated Luba and her sisters, body-builder Petra and therapist/film star Fritz, find their families and friends lives becoming more and more intertwined. As the three sisters have memories of sweet youth, the next[...]
In Ofelia, the sisters, the kids, and the cousins are all settled comfortably in California after leaving Palomar in Luba and Her Family. Luba and her cousin Ofelia s relationship has always been fraught, but when Ofelia threatens to write a book about Luba, past memories, secrets, resentments, and [...]
An all-new graphic novel from Pen Center USA Award winner, Gilbert Hernandez
Welcome to Lagrimas, a small south-of-the-border town where young men who consider themselves "loverboys" constantly hit on the ladies, but get shot down most of the time--until one begins an affair with the woman who [...]
"In this semi-autobiographical tale, Mr. Hernandez captures the wonder of childhood -- the joy of imagination, an appreciation for comic books and all the ultimately petty but seemingly world-shattering trials and tribulations of friendships during that time in one's life.""--""New York Times""Set i[...]