Perla la Loca

Author: Jaime Hernandez
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 156097883X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
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?

Wigwam Bam

Author: Jaime Hernandez
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
Jaime's definitive statement on post-punk culture. Maggie, Hopey, and the rest of Las Locas prowl Los Angeles, the East Coast, and parts in between trying to recapture the carefree spirit of those early days a decade ago.

Chester Square

Author: Jaime Hernandez
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
The original, seminal Love & Rockets comic book series, which ran for 50 issues from 1981 to 1996, singlehandedly defined the post-underground generation of comics that spawned Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware, and so many others. Now collected into 15 volumes, Love & Rockets is a body of work that The Nation has described as "one of the hidden treasures of our impoverished culture." Created by brothers Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario Hernandez, three Southern California Mexican-Americans armed with a passion for pop culture and punk rock, Love & Rockets gave a voice to minorities and women for the first time in the medium's then 50-year history and remains one of the greatest achievements in comic book history.

LOCAS

Author: Jaime Hernandez
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 712

Book Description
When Mexican-American rock girl Maggie Chascarrillo and feisty anti-authoritarian punkette Hopey Glass first meet, a turbulent yet enduring relationship is born.

The Love Bunglers

Author: Jaime Hernandez
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1606997297
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 113

Book Description
The suppression of family history is the initial thread that ties together The Love Bunglers, featuring Hernandez's longtime Love and Rockets heroine Maggie. Because these secrets can't be dealt with openly, their lingering effect is even more powerful. But Maggie's ability to navigate and find meaning in her life - despite losing her culture, her brother, her profession, and her friends - is what's made her a compelling character. After a lifetime of losses, Maggie finds, in the second half, her longtime off and on lover, Ray Dominguez. Much like John Updike in his four Rabbitnovels, Jaime Hernandez has been following his longtime character Maggie around for several decades, all of which has seemed to be building towards this book in particular.

Amor y Cohetes

Author: Gilbert Hernandez
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1560979267
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
To a very great extent, Love and Rockets is synonymous with Hoppers' Maggie & Hopey and Palomar's Luba & Carmen & Heraclio & Tonantzin... but there was always more to L and R than that. Amor y Cohetes finally collects together in one convenient package all the non-Maggie and non-Palomar stories by all three Hernandez Brothers from that classic first, 50-issue Love and Rockets series—a dizzying array of styles and approaches that re-confirms these groundbreaking cartoonists' place in the history of comics.

The Girl from H.O.P.P.E.R.S.

Author: Jaime Hernandez
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1560978511
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
This volume collects the adventures of the spunky Maggie; her annoying, pixie-ish best friend and sometime lover Hopey; and their circle of friends, including their bombshell friend Penny Century, Maggie's weirdo mentor Izzy―as well as the aging but still heroic wrestler Rena Titanon and Maggie's handsome love interest, Rand Race. After the sci-fi trappings of his earliest stories (as seen in Maggie the Mechanic, the first volume in this series), Hernandez refined his approach, settling on the more naturalistic environment of the fictional Los Angeles barrio, Hoppers, and the lives of the young Mexican-Americans and punk rockers who live there. A central story and one of Jaime's absolute peaks is "The Death of Speedy." Such is Jaime's mastery that even though the end of the story is telegraphed from the very title, the downhill spiral of Speedy, the local heartthrob, is utterly compelling and ultimately quite surprising. Also in this volume, Maggie begins her on-again off-again romance with Ray D., leading to friction and an eventual separation from Hopey.

Penny Century

Author: Jaime Hernandez
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1606993429
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
Picking up right after Perla La Loca, the third volume of the definitive “Maggie” series repackaging, this compilation of stories from Jaime Hernandez’s solo comic Penny Century and his subsequent return to Love and Rockets (Volume II) charts the further lives of his beloved “Locas.” But first... wrestling! Penny Century starts off with a blast with “Whoa, Nellie!,” a unique graphic novelette in which Maggie, who has settled in with her pro-wrestler aunt for a while, experiences that wild and woolly world first-hand.

Maggie the Mechanic

Author: Jaime Hernandez
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1560977841
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 277

Book Description
The first of three volumes chronicles the globe-trotting adventures and exploits of Maggie, her best friend and occasional lover Hopey, and their companions, Peggy Century, her weirdo mentor Izzy, aging wrestler Rena Titanon, and Maggie's new love interest, Rand Race. Original.

Luba

Author: Gilbert Hernandez
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
by Gilbert Hernandez In his first graphic novel in two years, Hernandez's The Book of Ofelia begins with Luba, Ofelia and company trying to acclimate to life in America. When Ofelia decides to chronicle her life with Luba in a tell-all book, she discovers inspiration in Luba's young children - the one-armed Casimira, Socorro with the photographic memory, the loner Joselito and the silent Conchita. See Latino soap opera and soft-core porn, with touches of magic-realism, all in one!