Jaime Hernandez

As Hernandez puts it, “It's my Love and Rockets world that's not my Love and Rockets world.” This best-of book spotlights the women who are often ignored in pro wrestling in 125 full-colour illustrations: pin-ups, action shots, fake wrestling magazine covers, all presented in a large paperback format that echoes the lucha libre magazines of the 1960s. Hernandez also discusses...

Ten years in the making (and torn from the pages of the legendary Love and Rockets), Jaime Hernandez's newest graphic novel skillfully weaves two generations of his beloved characters into a satisfying story of love — both young and middle-aged. Life Drawing darts primarily between the youthful Tonta and the venerable Maggie. Tonta has a crush on her art teacher,...

The Washington Post, Best Graphic Novels of 2022 Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez are now recognised as two of the greatest cartoonists in the history of the medium—award-winning, world-renowned, critically acclaimed. But in 1982, when the first issue of Love and Rockets came out, they (occasionally working with their brother, Mario) were two young, struggling, unknown cartoonists who were bucking the...

Both Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez developed their skills as artists in public, in the pages of Love and Rockets, and as quickly as any artists ever have. The first issue showed two promising young tyros; by the fourth, both brothers were clearly among the foremost cartoonists of their generation. But not all of that development took place on the main...

The 25th anniversary Love and Rockets celebration continues with the first of three volumes collecting the adventures of the spunky Maggie, her annoying best friend and sometime lover Hopey, and their circle of friends. Maggie the Mechanic collects the earliest, punkiest, most heavily sci-fi Maggie stories, and you can see the artist (who drew like an angel from the very...

Jaime Hernandez is one of the most humane, graceful, and imaginatively inexhaustible artists in American popular culture. Locas tells the story of Maggie Chascarrillo, a bisexual, Mexican-American woman attempting to define herself in a community rife with class, race, and gender issues. Maggie's story begins in the early-1980s Southern California rock scene, when it was shifting from the excesses of...

In the follow-up to the LA Book Prize-winning The Love Bunglers, the Locas get the band back together—literally. Maggie and Hopey leave their significant others at home and take a weekend road trip to go to a punk scene reunion in their old neighbourhood. Threaded throughout are flashbacks to 1979, during the formative stages in their lifelong relationship, as the...

From the very first cover of Love and Rockets in 1982, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez have created artwork that subverted, contradicted, and celebrated the history of the comic book medium. They inverted familiar tropes and created some of the most iconic images in comics over the past 30 years, inviting fans and readers into their world. Amazingly, many of the...

The sublime, the superpowered, and the senior citizen converge in Angels and Magpies, which collects the Gods and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls and The Love Bunglers graphic novels from the Love and Rockets Vol. III: New Stories series, as well as Hernandez's 2006 serial for The New York Times. In the latter, Maggie pays a visit to Queen Rena,...

In this batch of Locas stories by Jaime Hernandez from the pages of Love and Rockets, an older and wiser Maggie faces down her old demons and the "Ghost of Hoppers" in a full-length graphic novel (which also introduces one of Jaime's greatest recent characters, Vivian the Frogmouth). Meanwhile, the ever-feisty but maturing Hopey transitions from tending bar to teaching...