Gilbert Hernandez and Darwyn Cooke. Vertigo, $14.99 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-4012-6245-7
Love and Rockets cocreator Hernandez teams up with the late cartoonist and animation designer Darwyn Cooke (DC: The New Frontier), who died shortly after this volume’s release. Like much of his solo work, Hernandez’s rare outing as a writer is a...
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Jaime Hernandez, Author, Gilbert Hernandez, Author . Fantagraphics $14.99 (100p) ISBN 978-1-60699-168-8
These latest tales from the art comics trailblazers are sure to draw readers in with their melancholic tone and the adventurous comic art that has enthralled readers for decades. The volume is bookended with Jaime's Ti-Girls stories. In the...
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Jaime Hernandez, Author, Gilbert Hernandez, Author, Mario Hernandez, Author . Fantagraphics $16.99 (283p) ISBN 978-1-56097-926-5
This collection of the first run of Love & Rockets
comes to a fitting conclusion with this swoon-worthy B sides and rarities compilation of all Los Bros Hernandez's non-Palomar, non–Maggie and Hopey stories. Most in keeping with...
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Gilbert Hernandez, Author Vertigo $19.99 (124p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0366-5
The much heraldedLove & Rockets cartoonist turns in his first original graphic novel and it showcases a creator still making vital work after two decades. The story is of young people too creative, too smart and too passionate for the constraints of
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Gilbert Hernandez. Drawn & Quarterly, $21.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-77046-165-9
Following up on his portrait of childhood in Marble Season, Hernandez returns with this heartbreaking, ambitious, and fascinating portrayal of Bobby, a kid growing up in Oxnard, Calif. The book is broken into five parts, each focusing on a key...
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Gilbert Hernandez. Fantagraphics, $22.99 (112p) ISBN 978-1-60699-625-6
Hernandez is already having a stellar year with Marble Season and Julio’s Day, and the hits keep coming with this successful return to his fictional Central American setting of Palomar. It’s an engaging collection of vignettes full of magical...
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Gilbert Hernandez. Drawn and Quarterly, $21.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-77046-086-7
Someday they’re going to run out of superlatives to heap upon the lap of Hernandez (co-creator of Love and Rockets), but not yet. This graphic novel is a sublime and soulful portrait of childhood through the eyes of Huey, a middle child (like...
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Gilbert Hernandez, Author . Fantagraphics $19.95 (168p) ISBN 978-1-56097-467-3
This collection of short comix gathers work by Hernandez, who, along with his brother, Jaime, created Love and Rockets, the ongoing comix series credited with spurring a new era of literary cartooning in the early 1980s. Although titled after Luba,...
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Gilbert Hernandez, Author . Fantagraphics $16.99 (136p) ISBN 978-1-60699-318-7
From the pages of the venerable comics institution Love and Rockets come 11 stories that loosely revolve around the emotional and sexual misadventures of psychoanalyst, sci-fi fanatic, and heroically voluptuous grade-Z film star Rosalba “Fritz&
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Gilbert Hernandez, Author . Fantagraphics $19.99 (120p) ISBN 978-1-56097-922-7
Hernandez combines magical realism with the glories of a pulp movie in this comic adaptation of an imaginary movie starring Rosabella “Fritz” Martinez from Love and Rockets
. In this tale, four characters living on the fringes of society
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Gilbert Hernandez, Author . Fantagraphics $39.99 (595p) ISBN 978-1-56097-960-9
In this expansive sequel to 2003's Palomar
, Hernandez gives readers a peek into the lives of the inimitable Luba and her extended family now living in modern-day Southern California. Often taking center stage is the snarky Venus, the young...
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Gilbert Hernandez, Author . Fantagraphics $16.95 (136p) ISBN 978-1-56097-769-8
The rich emotions and passionate characters of Hernandez (Love & Rockets
; Luba)
are translated to a welcome new graphic novel, which fills B-movie situations with real drama. The story tracks the harsh world of the Empress, an otherwise...
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Gilbert Hernandez, Author . Fantagraphics $39.95 (520p) ISBN 978-1-56097-539-7
In 1983, Hernandez started writing and drawing short stories in Love and Rockets
about a little central American town called Palomar and the interconnected lives of its inhabitants. The "Heartbreak Soup" stories, as they were called,...
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Gilbert Hernandez. Dark Horse, $19.99 (80p) ISBN 978-1-61655-478-1
This is sort of “Gilbert Hernandez for Beginners”—a standalone graphic novel set in a small South American town where various familiar themes from his long-running Palomar stories play out in a more compact arena. In the town of Lágrimas (“tears”),...
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Gilbert Hernandez. Dark Horse, $20 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-1-61655-340-1
Not another zombie comic! At least, that’s what you’d say if the creator were anyone other than Hernandez (Love and Rockets), who dispels concerns by fashioning an unpredictably strange and wonderful tale. In a weird and hip future, Operations, a...
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Gilbert Hernandez. Fantagraphics, $19.99 ISBN 978-1-60699-606-5
Gilbert Hernandez’s work has been kicking around in the pages of Love and Rockets with that of his brother Jaime for three decades now. With more collections of his work becoming available, the walloping punch of Gilbert’s vision is becoming...
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Gilbert & Jaime Hernandez. Fantagraphics, $14.99 trade paper (104p) ISBN 978-1-60699-586-0
In the 30 years they’ve been writing and drawing Love and Rockets, Los Bros Hernandez have created wonderfully complex story lines and characters. In this volume, Gilbert concentrates on episodes in Palomar, a Latin American village whose...
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Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez. Fantagraphics, $14.99 trade paper (104p) ISBN 978-1-60699-679-9
Back in 1982 when it debuted, Los Bros Hernandez’s energetically subversive comic book series received extensive critical acclaim and skyrocketed the pair into alt-comics preeminence. Thirty years on, their work has become even more sublime and...
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Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez. Fantagraphics , $14.99 trade paper (100p) ISBN 978-1-6069-9770-3
The renowned Hernandez brothers continue this acclaimed series after more than three decades of fictional dramas and black comedies. The clear highlight is Jaime's reunion between Hopey and Maggie, ex-lovers who get together for a punk event in...
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Gilbert Hernandez, Author, George Herriman, Author Fantagraphics Books $19.95 (120p) ISBN 978-1-56097-151-1
Along with his brother Jaime, Gilbert Hernandez (Love and Rockets X) has produced some of the best comics work of the last 10 years. Poison River is the story of one his most engaging characters, Luba-self-possessed, intelligent and iconoclastically
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Gilbert Hernandez. Fantagraphics, $29.99 (232p) ISBN 978-1-68396-016-4
Hernandez (the Love and Rockets series) again channels his obsessions into feverish soap opera with unplumbable depths, here following decades in the life of Maria, a beguiling woman with a taste for bad men and dangerous situations. Maria...
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Gilbert Hernandez. Fantagraphics, $24.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-68396-204-5
Hernandez collects two wild, woolly, sexually frank stories from the Love and Rockets: New Stories series in this rambunctious if slim volume. “Hypnotwist,” a wordless, surrealist fantasy reminiscent of early Daniel Clowes, follows a woman’s journey
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