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Hernandez Brothers' Love and Rockets
Critical Survey of Graphic Novels LOVE AND ROCKETS LOVE AND ROCKETS Author: Hernandez, Gilbert; Hernandez, Jaime; Her- nandez, Mario Artist: Gilbert Hernandez (illustrator); Jaime Her- nandez (illustrator); Mario Hernandez (illustrator); Jeff Johnson (colorist); Rhea Patton (colorist); Chris Brownrigg (colorist); Steven Weissman (colorist) Publisher: Fantagraphics Books First serial publication: 1982-1996; 2001-2007; 2008- First book publication: 1985- Publication History Soon after brothers Mario, Gilbert, and Jaime Her- nandez self-published their first issue of Love and Rockets in 1981, it caught the eye of Fantagraphics publisher Gary Groth. In 1982, Groth republished the inaugural issue; the first series ofLove and Rockets ran for fifty issues, ending in 1996. All issues in the orig- inal volume were magazine-size, and the comics were black and white. The art duties for the color covers al- ternated between Gilbert and Jaime; one would draw the front cover and the other the back cover, then switching responsibilities for the following issue. Love and Rockets. (Courtesy of Fantagraphics Books) After the end of the first series, Jaime and Gilbert began working on separate titles that continued many large omnibus collections, and Love and Rockets Li- of the stories in the original Love and Rockets. In brary editions. 2001, the brothers began their second series of Love and Rockets, which ran for twenty issues, until 2007. Plot Although these issues were smaller than the originals, Love and Rockets contains a variety of narrative arcs, they nonetheless retained a similar format: color covers many of which have convoluted plots. The two pri- illustrated by Jaime and Gilbert and black-and-white mary stories, however, concern the associations of the content written and illustrated by all three brothers. -
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To Be Continued...: Serialization and Its Discontent in the Recent Comics
262 263 To Be Continued...: they do on iconographic contexts and their impact on reader affect. In mapping out this latter concept, it would be useful to discuss McCloud's understanding Serialization and Its Discontent of closure in comics as well as Groensteen's understanding of spatio-topical in the Recent Comics of Gilbert Hernandez operations, that is, comics' emphasis on both the paneled figures as self contained iconic units, as well as their situated coordinates within and among Derek Parker Royal the comic pages. Such readings shed light on the direction of Hernandez's recent comics and his increasing reliance on non-serialized narrative. It is notable that Hernandez's apparent abandonment of the episodic Palomar Between 1989 and 1993, Gilbert Hernandez's epic Poison River was slories -- based on the mythical Central American community that gained him serialized in the first volume of the comic book Love & Rockets (#29-40), the widespread recognition -- has coincided with more experimental novelistic groundbreaking alternative comic book created by Gilbert and his brothers lexts that de-emphasize linemity but privilege larger iconographic frameworks. Jaime and Mario. Eventually published as a single volume in 1994, Poison Indeed, this shift in his narrative strategy illustrates the limitations of periodic River did not lend itself well to serialization. With its non-linear plotting, its storytelling, at least as a vehicle for what has become known as "literary" or lack of narrative transitions, its temporal experimentation, its expansive cast "alternative" comics, and its links to genre expectations within graphic narrative. of characters, and its constant shifts between realism and the fantastic, the Charles Hatfield, to date the most astute scholar on comic book story confused many of its readers and even helped to drive down sales of the serialization, discusses the three kinds of effects that serialization can have comic book. -
Introduction
introduction LOS BROS HERNANDEZ are a collective of sibling Latino comic book art- ists (Mario, Gilbert, and Jaime) who have been very influential in the Amer- ican comic book industry. Born to a humble Mexican-American family in Oxnard, California, the brothers have taken an interesting career path to develop into the artists they are today. Their seminal experimental anthology Love and Rockets is their most important achievement, as it is one of the longest-running titles that has survived on the ever-changing comic book mar- ket, and is the text that fully demonstrates their artistic maturity. With this work, they have been able to experiment with comic book narrative tech- niques, which has earned them a loyal fan base and the respect of their peers in the industry as well as that of mainstream critics. Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, the main subjects of this book, are arguably two of the most influential U.S. Latino comic book artists of all time. They self-identify specifically as Latino artists (of Mexican American descent), and their collective work includes masterpieces such as Gilbert’s Palomar and Jaime’s Locas sagas. Their epic stories contain Latino characters and content that often serve to define their texts as ethnic contributions to the American comic book industry, which has been known for having a problematic history 1 © 2017 University of Pittsburgh Press. All rights reserved. in providing venues for diversity. However, not all of their comics feature Latino signifiers, and, as Los Bros are very comfortable with mainstream American comic book genres, they are able to dabble in narratives that in the past were not commonly associated with traditional Latino literature, such as superheroes, horror, and science fiction. -
Dear Jan and Zach
Symposium on “Comics, Creativity, and Culture: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives” October 5-8, 2011 Bio-bibliographies for Visiting Comics Authors-Artists-Educators: Jessica Abel teaches at the School for Visual Arts in New York City. She began creating comics as a student at the University of Chicago before winning a Xeric Grant to publish her comic book Artbabe, eventually published by Fantagraphics. Collections of her Artbabe (and other) comics include Mirror, Window (2000, Fantagraphics) and Soundtrack (2001, Fantagraphics). She is also the creator of the graphic novels La Perdida (2006, Pantheon) and Life Sucks [with Gabriel Soria and Warren Pleece] (2008, First Second). With Matt Madden, she has published the handbook Drawing Words and Writing Pictures (2008, First Second). With Matt Madden she is also the general editor of the annual Best American Comics Series published by Houghton Mifflin. Phoebe Gloeckner is Associate Professor in the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. After publishing comics in underground anthologies such as Wimmen’s Comix, Weirdo, Young Lust, and Twisted Sisters, her collection A Child’s Life and Other Stories (1998, revised 2002, Frog Books) was followed by the illustrated novel The Diary of A Young Girl (Frog Press, 2002), which was adapted into a play in 2010. She is also a notable illustrator (having earned a degree in Biomedical Communications), including for the RE/Search edition of J. G. Ballard’s The Atrocity Exhibition (1990) and many other publications. In 2008 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her ongoing work examines the unsolved murders of young women on the United States- Mexico border. -
The Hernandez Brothers: a Selected Bibliography
ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies ISSN: 1549-6732 Volume 7, Issue 1 (2013). http://www.engl...ed_biography.shtml The Hernandez Brothers: A Selected Bibliography By Derek Parker Royal 1 What follows is a selected bibliography of the work surrounding the three Hernandez brothers, Mario, Gilbert, and Jaime. The list is divided into five primary sections, one listing the brothers' work together in their Love and Rockets series, one for each of the three brothers' solo publications (some of which includes reprinted material originally appearing in Love and Rockets), and a final section on secondary critical texts. Regarding the latter, there is a notable dearth of scholarship devoted to the Hernandez's work, either together or solo, and by far the most prevalent secondary materials available are interviews. While many of the most significant or substantive interviews are cited in the bibliography, not all published interviews with the brothers, especially those conducted with a single brother, are represented. Listings of reprint collections, such as the "Complete Love and Rockets" books or the more recent "Love and Rockets Library" volumes, are accompanied by a description of the originally published content or where it appeared in a previous collection. 2 Since Fantagraphics has exhaustively collected Love and Rockets, and in multiple series, only their collected editions are listed in this bibliography, and not reprints from other publishers, such as the various collections Titan Books published between 1987 and 1989. Collections or anthologies in which one of the Hernandez brothers appears occasionally, but not consistently—e.g., Real Girl, Anything Goes!, Zero Zero, Goody Good Comics, and Simpson's Treehouse of Horror—are not listed in this bibliography.