Books by Jaime Hernandez and Complete Book Reviews
Jaime Hernandez, Author . Fantagraphics $49.95 (704p) ISBN 978-1-56097-611-0
These superb stories from the nearly 20-year run of Love and Rockets
define a world of Hispanic gang warfare, '80s California, punk rock, women wrestlers and the subtle battle to stay true to oneself. Hernandez's main characters are Maggie...
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Jaime Hernandez, Author . Fantagraphics $18.95 (120p) ISBN 978-1-56097-700-1
This 22nd volume of the critically acclaimed Love and Rockets series finds recent divorcée Maggie Chascarrillo managing a low-rent apartment complex in San Fernando Valley. She's struggling with being single, navigating a complicated...
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Jaime Hernandez, Author . Fantagraphics $39.99 (418p) ISBN 978-1-60699-156-5
This omnibus edition starring Hernandez's cast of young L.A. denizens from the pages of Love & Rockets
and spinoffs was previously collected in the volumes Dicks and Deedees
, Locas in Love
, Ghost of Hoppers
and The Education of Hopey...
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Jaime Hernandez, Author . Fantagraphics $18.99 (249p) ISBN 978-1-60699-342-2
This charming collection of stories from the long-running and much acclaimed Love and Rockets explores friendship and romance through the interconnected experiences of several characters over many years. Most prominent is Maggie, a Hispanic...
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Jaime Hernandez. Fantagraphics, $19.99 (144 p) ISBN 978-1-60699-539-6
This latest effort from the renowned Hernandez lovingly fuses the spirit of Silver Age superhero comics with the ongoing soap opera of Maggie, the former-mechanic now turned manager of a shabby Southern California apartment complex. Recent stories...
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Jaime Hernandez . Fantagraphics, $19.99 (104p) ISBN 978-1-60699-729-1
Hernandez (Love and Rockets), one of graphic storytelling's modern masters, returns readers to the mundane world of his most lasting creation, Maggie Chascarillo. Maggie's ongoing soap opera continues as artist and former lover Ray Dominguez re-enter
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Jaime Hernandez, Author, Gary Groth, Editor . Fantagraphics $19.99 (114p) ISBN 978-1-56097-939-5
In this perfect confluence of stunning illustration and gripping narrative, Hernandez returns to his early Love & Rockets
roots with aging punk-rocker Esperanza “Hopey” Glass taking the spotlight in this collection’s first...
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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 & 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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Jaime Hernandez. Fantagraphics, $19.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-68396-182-6
Hernandez explores the tensions between idealized young love and comfy mature reality in this powerful follow-up to The Love Bunglers. The saga of punk lesbian lovers Maggie and Hopey has been unfolding for more than 30 years in the Love and Rockets
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Jaime Hernandez. Fantagraphics, $19.99 (104p) ISBN 978-1-68396-205-2
When the reckless and exuberant Tonta, star of this antics-filled graphic novel, opens her roller-coaster tale, her biggest worry in life is her ongoing crush on Eric Lopez, lead singer of Ooot. Her attempts to gets Eric’s attention are interrupted...
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Jaime Hernandez. Fantagraphics, $24.99 (128p) ISBN 978-1-68396-445-2
Hernandez (the Love and Rockets series) shows off his trademark crisp draftsmanship and genius for character drawing in this art book devoted entirely to portraits of women wrestlers, in action and pin-ups. A perfectionist, Hernandez copies...
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