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Love and Rockets: New Stories No. 7

Gilbert Hernandez

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 humdrum domestic lives and go on a road trip to visit a "sick friend." And, when the cat's away, Ray visits some old, sick friends of his own. Plus Tonta's nutty family! Gilbert offers a suite of stories, including "The Magic Voyage of Aladdin," a sweeping epic of derring-do in which Morgan Le Fey (Fritz) teams up with Aladdin to stop the evil Circle from obtaining the magic lamp; "The Golem Suit," a WWII sci-fi thriller starring "Killer"; and "Daughters and Mothers and Daughters," in which flashbacks to Luba's mother Maria reveal how ugly secrets of the past affect their family today.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
  • Publish Date: Feb 22nd, 2015
  • Pages: 100
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.00in - 7.70in - 0.30in - 0.60lb
  • EAN: 9781606997703
  • Recommended age: 16-UP
  • Categories: Literary

About the Author

Hernandez, Gilbert: - Gilbert Hernandez was born in 1957 in Oxnard, California, and is considered one of the greatest living comics writer-artists in the world. In 1982, Hernandez co-created, along with his brothers Mario and Jaime, the ongoing, iconic, internationally acclaimed comic book series Love and Rockets, one of the greatest bodies of work the medium has ever seen. In addition to his work on Love and Rockets, its spinoffs, and side series, Hernandez has released a prodigious amount of original graphic novels and miniseries, such as Sloth, Bumperhead, and Marble Season. He also collaborated with Darwyn Cooke on The Twilight Children for DC. He was inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 2017 and is the recipient of a Fellow Award from United States Artists and a PEN Center USA's Graphic Literature Award for Outstanding Body of Work. Hernandez lives in Ventura, CA, with his wife and daughter.
Hernandez, Jaime: - 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.

Praise for this book

...Jaime reunites lifelong pals Maggie and Hopey for a road trip, and Gilbert returns briefly to the fictional Latin American village of Palomar and casts his sometimes-actress character Fritz in a goofy costume epic featuring Aladdin and a spaceship. The familiar cast members and the Hernandez brothers' respective graphic strengths -- Jaime's economically elegant cartooning and Gilbert's bold designs and imaginative characterizations -- will leave fans satisfied and eager for next year's installment.--Gordon Flagg "Booklist"
Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez have crafted one of the most salient, evocative modern romantic dramas in comics, if not any medium.--Sean Edgar "Paste"
The renowned Hernandez brothers continue this acclaimed series after more than three decades of fictional dramas and black comedies. ... The art, as always, is top-notch, black and white art rendering the characters as hugely expressive and lovable. (Starred Review)-- "Publishers Weekly"
Another strong, strong, strong, strong, strong issue.--Tom Spurgeon "The Comics Reporter"
The latest Love & Rockets: New Stories is... comfortable and deeply pleasurable -- and often startling -- in the ways that master cartoonists Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez have done for over thirty years: the art is gorgeous, the storytelling clear and perfectly realized, the characters sketched acutely and smartly, with wonderful surprises and complex subtexts displaying themselves seemingly around every turn.--Jason Sacks "Comics Bulletin"
The great thing is that Love and Rockets isn't stuck in time; it's not telling the same stories over and over. Its characters have been allowed to grow up, learn and develop.--Scott Cederlund "Panel Patter"
...[W]hat we have here is a comic so insanely aflame with creative fire that we have to break the Emergency Glass and throw the word ART! at it. No doubt, no doubt at all, The Bros Hernandez are still simply the best...--John Kane "The Savage Critics"