Jaime Hernandez Books

The legendary Love and Rockets comic book series continues with a new paperback collection celebrating its 25th anniversary. This first volume features the adventures of Maggie, her pixie-like best friend and occasional lover Hopey, and their circle of friends, including the glamorous Penny Century, the eccentric mentor Izzy, the aging wrestler Rena Titanon, and Maggie's unattainable love interest, Rand Race. Moving away from the sci-fi elements of earlier stories, Hernandez focuses on the more realistic setting of the fictional Los Angeles barrio, Hoppers, and the lives of young Mexican-Americans and punk rockers. A standout story is "The Death of Speedy," showcasing Jaime's storytelling mastery; despite the title revealing the outcome, Speedy's decline remains compelling and surprising. This volume also explores Maggie's tumultuous romance with Ray D., leading to tension and a separation from Hopey, which will be central to the upcoming "Wigwam Bam." Additionally, several stories, including wrestling narratives featuring Rena and the unsettling "Izzy meets the Devil" tale, "Flies on the Ceiling," were not included in the hardcover Locas collection.

.html by Los Bros Hernandez Volume 6 showcases Gilbert's Palomar in the title story, "Duck Feet," in which a spooky bruja (witch) passes through town and leaves a load of trouble and weirdness in her raggedy wake. Meanwhile, in the city, Vincente has fallen on hard times and Israel tries to fill the void left by the disappearance of his twin sister whey were children. Not to be out done, Jaime presents the best of his "hanging around" stories featuring Maggie and Hopey. Guest starring Hopey's lady-killer little brother Jaoey and Izzy's diary secrets. All this plus Rocky, Fumble, Rena Titanon, and a cover gallery. MATURE READERS SC, 8x11, 136pg, b&w (Note Price)

.html by Gilbert HernandezThe most explosive Heartbreak Soup story ever, “Blood of Palomar” originally ran in Love & Rockets #21-26. In this saga, a serial killer stalks the streets of Palomar. Gruesome and senseless as his depredations are, they are dwarfed by the resulting social and psychological collapse suffered by the inhabitants of the tiny Central American village. Featuring all the Heartbreak Soup players - Heraclio, Luba, Tonantzin, Carmen, Pipo. “Blood of Palomar” is a true graphic novel - a masterpiece of comics that can hold its own next to any piece of literature.MATURE READERSSC, 8x11, 136pg, b&w

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Picking up right after Perla La Loca, the third volume of the definitive Maggie series repackaging, this compilation of stories from Jaime Hernandez s solo comic Penny Century and his subsequent return to Love and Rockets(Volume II) charts the further lives of his beloved Locas. But first... wrestling Penny Century starts off with a blast with Whoa, Nellie , a unique graphic novelette in which Maggie, who has settled in withher pro-wrestler aunt for a while, experiences that wild and woolly world first-hand.Then it s back to chills and spills with the old cast of Hopey, Ray Dominguez, and Izzy Ortiz including Maggie sromantic dream fantasia The Race and the definitive Ray story, Everybody Loves Me, Baby. Penny Century also features two major flashback stories: Bay of Threes finally reveals the full back story behindBeatriz Penny Century Garcia, Maggie s long-time, bleached-blonde bombshell friend (who gives this volume its nameand can currently be seen as a super-villainess in Love and Rockets: New Stories), while Home School is one of Hernandez s popular looks at his characters lives from when they were little kids, drawn in an adorable simplified Dennis theMenace type style.

The suppression of family history is the initial thread that ties together The Love Bunglers, featuring Hernandez's longtime Love and Rockets heroine Maggie. Because these secrets can't be dealt with openly, their lingering effect is even more powerful. But Maggie's ability to navigate and find meaning in her life - despite losing her culture, her brother, her profession, and her friends - is what's made her a compelling character. After a lifetime of losses, Maggie finds, in the second half, her longtime off and on lover, Ray Dominguez. Much like John Updike in his four Rabbitnovels, Jaime Hernandez has been following his longtime character Maggie around for several decades, all of which has seemed to be building towards this book in particular.

Ein trostloser Vorort, flimmernde Luft, lähmende Langeweile. Hier verbringen Margarita „Maggie“ Chascarillo und Esperanza „Hopey“ Glass eine Jugend zwischen Punkrockpartys, Selbstzweifeln und Gelegenheitsjobs. Als Maggies Schwarm, „Speedy“ Ortiz, in der Auseinandersetzung zweier rivalisierender Jugendgangs einen sinnlosen und traurigen Tod stirbt, wird der Mikrokosmos der jungen Frauen erstmals in den Grundfesten erschüttert... Jaime Hernandez' „Der Tod von Speedy“ hat dem Comic in den Achtzigerjahren wegweisende Impulse verliehen: Mit entwaffnendem Einfühlungsvermögen und exakter Beobachtungsgabe thematisiert der Zeichner die Lebenswirklichkeit von Jugendlichen in den Suburbs von Los Angeles. Covergestaltung: Arne Bellstorf

Bereits seit mehr als drei Jahrzehnten begleitet Jaime Hernandez das Leben seiner Protagonistin Maggie Chascarillo. Ähnlich Harry Angstrom in John Updikes „Rabbit“-Romanen wuchs Maggie gemeinsam mit ihren Lesern heran. Heute ist sie Mitte Vierzig und alle Pfade, die sie betreten hat, sämtliche Entscheidungen, die sie traf, kulminieren in „Liebe und Versagen“. Wie ein Kaleidoskop führt das Buch Schicksalsschläge, Familiengeheimnisse und Wendepunkte in Maggies Leben zusammen und erzählt eine berührende Geschichte über Erinnerungen und ihre Last auf unserer Gegenwart. Jamie Hernandez gelingt mit „Liebe und Versagen“ ein Kunstwerk – kraftvoll und echt –, das uns eindrücklich vor Augen führt, dass wir Ängste und Traurigkeit akzeptieren müssen, uns von ihnen aber nicht versehren lassen dürfen. Covergestaltung: Arne Bellstorf

"The story of a utopian city with architecture that drives its inhabitants mad and the never-sleeping architect who quests tirelessly for a cure"--Jacket.

Když hledal Jaime Hernandez námět pro sérii Love and Rockets, ohlédl se za bouřlivým děním na punkové scéně počátku osmdesátých let, která jej obklopovala, do toho přimíchal vlastní dojmy z prolínání americké kultury s kulturou mexickou, špetku komiksového sci-fi koření, a punkerky Maggie a Hopey – příležitostné milenky a neúnavné výtržnice, známé také jako „Las Locas“ – byly na světě. Sbírka Mechanická Maggie přináší ucelenější historky o „Locas“ z prvních pěti let; jdou chronologicky za sebou, navíc v příjemném „skoro“ čtvercovém formátu. Najdou se mezi nimi perly jako „Mechan-X“, což je vůbec první příběh s Maggie a Hopey; nefalšovaný grafický román „Las Mujeres Perdidas“ (Pokleslé ženštiny; kde se ve vedlejší roli mihne wrestlingová legenda Rena Titañon); a více než dvě desítky dalších klasických příběhů.