Love and Rockets comic books issue 1

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Color cover - Fall 1982. 1st printing (2nd to 5th printings exist for most issues in this series). Cover by Jaime Hernandez. Back Cover by Gilbert Hernandez. Stories and Art by Gilbert Hernandez and Jaime Hernandez. The first issue is an expanded version of the 1981 self-published issue. Includes a half-page introduction by Gary Groth. Featuring: Chapters 1-5 of "BEM" by Gilbert Hernandez; Locas tale "Mechan-X" by Jaime Hernandez; "Barrio Huerta (Hoppers 13)" 1-pager by Jaime Hernandez; Locas 1-pager "Penny Century, You're Fired!!" by Jaime Hernandez; Izzy tale "How To Kill a... (By Isabel Ruebens)" by Jaime Hernandez; Bang and Inez tale [Music for Monsters I] by Gilbert Hernandez; "Locas Tambien" by Jaime Hernandez; and a brief La Chota tale by Jaime Hernandez. 68 pages, B&W. Mature Readers. Cover price $2.95.

Story, Art and Cover by Gilbert Hernandez and Jaime Hernandez. The comic book event of 2016! Love and Rockets is back as an all-new, ongoing comic book series (Vol. IV for those keeping track at home)! On Jaime's side: What do you do when none of your old punk friends want to be punk any more? And just who does the evil Princess Animus think she is? (Hint: She doesn't know, she has amnesia.) On Gilbert's side: Family drama takes center stage when a Fritz discovers a grandchild she didn't know existed! Old fans and new fans are sure to enjoy the most diverse cast of characters in comics, including Maggie, Hopey, Pipo, Fritz, Tonta, Baby, and many more! Plus other surprises! Grrrowl! 36 pages, B&W. Cover price $4.99.

(W/A/CA) Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez The original cover, designed by Jaime, is now out of print but a limited edition variant cover, designed by Gilbert, is now available to order! The comic book event of 2016! Love and Rockets is back as an all-new, ongoing comic book series (Vol. IV for those keeping track at home)! On Jaime's side: What do you do when none of your old punk friends want to be punk any more? And just who does the evil Princess Animus think she is? (Hint: She doesn't know, she has amnesia.) On Gilbert's side: Family drama takes center stage when a Fritz discovers a grandchild she didn't know existed! Old fans and new fans are sure to enjoy the most diverse cast of characters in comics, including Maggie, Hopey, Pipo, Fritz, Tonta, Baby, and many more! Plus other surprises! Grrrowl! Cover price $4.99.

Ghost Variant cover. (W/A/CA) Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez. Love and Rockets is back as an all-new, ongoing comic book series (Vol. IV for those keeping track at home)! On Jaime's side: What do you do when none of your old punk friends want to be punk any more? And just who does the evil Princess Animus think she is? (Hint: She doesn't know, she has amnesia.) On Gilbert's side: Family drama takes center stage when a Fritz discovers a grandchild she didn't know existed! Old fans and new fans are sure to enjoy the most diverse cast of characters in comics, including Maggie, Hopey, Pipo, Fritz, Tonta, Baby, and many more! Plus other surprises! Grrrowl! Cover price $4.99.

2nd printing Cover price $3.50.

by Gilbert, Jaime, & Mario Hernandez Fantagraphics Books is proud and elated to announce the return, after a five-year hiatus, of the comic book that changed the industry forever: Love and Rockets, reuniting all three Hernandez Brothers! Jaime picks up the newly-divorced Maggie's story as she returns to the old neighborhood to try to reconnect with her past; in the first issue she meets up with everyone's favorite Hoppers resident, Izzy Ortiz. Gilbert launches a thrilling new graphic novel, "Julio's Day," about a man's life from 1900 to 2000. Every person gets his day... or does he? Finally, Gilbert (artist) and Mario (writer) collaborate on "Me for the Unknown," a tale of political intrigue, dumping on the little guy, psychosis, and violent revenge reminiscent of some of their earliest L&R stories (or their Mister X "Tales of Somnopolis" stories). Deluxe paper, cardstock covers. MATURE READERS b&w, 32pg Cover price $3.95.

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Volume 1 - 1st printing. By The Brothers Hernandez. Love & Rockets: New Stories #1 reboots the beloved ongoing Love & Rockets comic into a fat, annual graphic novel-length package! Jaime launches the new format with a story that's unusual even for him - a full-on, pulse-pounding super-hero yarn! Maggie's longtime friend Penny Century has finally realized her longtime dream of acquiring super-powers, but at a terrible personal cost. Now she rampages through the galaxy, half mad with grief, and a motley group of super-heroes assembles to try to stop her - led by Maggie's girlfriend Angel and her mysterious neighbor Alarma, and involving a number of characters longtime Love and Rockets fans will delight in recognizing. The epic-length 50-page story (only the first half of the saga!) combines Jaime's razor sharp characterization and superlative art with wildly inventive, Kirby-style slam-bang super-hero action. Then Gilbert Hernandez explodes with a similarly generous helping of his fantastically creative one-shot short stories: "Tamanny" (rookie cop vs. demonic drug users); "Papa" (a turn-of-the-century story involving a traveling businessman); "The New Adventures of Duke and Sammy" (super-powered Martin and Lewis impostors in outer space); "The Tender Room" (Into the Wild as re-imagined by Beto); "Chiro el Indio" (written by third brother Mario Hernandez); and "Never Say Never" (a kangaroo gets lucky in Las Vegas). One hundred pages of Jaime, Gilbert and Mario Hernandez at the peak of their powers! Softcover, 104 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $14.99.

Volume 1 - 2nd and later printings. By The Brothers Hernandez. Love & Rockets: New Stories #1 reboots the beloved ongoing Love & Rockets comic into a fat, annual graphic novel-length package! Jaime launches the new format with a story that's unusual even for him - a full-on, pulse-pounding super-hero yarn! Maggie's longtime friend Penny Century has finally realized her longtime dream of acquiring super-powers, but at a terrible personal cost. Now she rampages through the galaxy, half mad with grief, and a motley group of super-heroes assembles to try to stop her - led by Maggie's girlfriend Angel and her mysterious neighbor Alarma, and involving a number of characters longtime Love and Rockets fans will delight in recognizing. The epic-length 50-page story (only the first half of the saga!) combines Jaime's razor sharp characterization and superlative art with wildly inventive, Kirby-style slam-bang super-hero action. Then Gilbert Hernandez explodes with a similarly generous helping of his fantastically creative one-shot short stories: "Tamanny" (rookie cop vs. demonic drug users); "Papa" (a turn-of-the-century story involving a traveling businessman); "The New Adventures of Duke and Sammy" (super-powered Martin and Lewis impostors in outer space); "The Tender Room" (Into the Wild as re-imagined by Beto); "Chiro el Indio" (written by third brother Mario Hernandez); and "Never Say Never" (a kangaroo gets lucky in Las Vegas). One hundred pages of Jaime, Gilbert and Mario Hernandez at the peak of their powers! Softcover, 104 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $14.99.

1st printing. BY Gilbert Hernandez and, Jaime Hernandez. 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 stage of their shared magazine. They built up to their 1981 self-published debut with years of experiments, fan art, zine illustrations, early short comics, and gig posters, and continued to work out in personal sketchbooks after establishing themselves as the preeminent cartoonists they became. Fantagraphics published two volumes of this nascent or private drawing in 1989 and 1992. Now, this deluxe hardcover collects the work from these two volumes with other rarely-seen artwork for a new generation of admirers. It's presented as a dual-sided flip book with one cover, and one half of the book, featuring Jaime's work and a second cover, and other half of the book, highlighting Gilbert's work. The Hernandez Brothers mastery of comics is seen on every page of the thousands of pages of Love and Rockets theyve drawn over the last 40 years. Here, for the first time in three decades, see the work they put into becoming those artists. Hardcover, 10-in. x 13-in., 300 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $75.00.

The original Love and Rockets fanzine that preceded the Fantagraphics magazines, which reprinted much of this material. 1st appearance of Maggie, Hopey, and Penny Century. "BEM" by Gilbert Hernandez, Mechan-X by Haime Hernandez, "How To Kill a" by Jaime, and an untitled story by Gilbert. 8.5-in. x 11-in.; black and white; 32 pages on good quality white paper. Cover price $1.00.

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Free Comic Book Day 2016 Edition - Story, Art, and Cover by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez. Love and Rockets is one of the most acclaimed and beloved series in comics history, and this summer, Fantagraphics has announced that the series will be rebooted as a quarterly comic book series beginning with a new #1 in July! To celebrate, Fantagraphics is offering up this one-shot sampler featuring classic L&R material by the great Hernandez Brothers, including an all-new cover and several other surprises! A perfect introduction to one of the most wonderful bodies of work in our medium's history. 32 pages, B&W

1st printing.

By Los Bros Hernandez.

The Love & Rockets library continues with this special volume!

Amor y Cohetes is the seventh volume in the new Complete Love & Rockets series, collecting together in one convenient package all the non-Maggie and non-Palomar stories by all three Hernandez Brothers from that classic first, 50-issue Love & Rockets series, including Gilbert's original 40-page sci-fi epic "BEM" from 1981's very first issue of Love & Rockets, Jaime's charming "Rocky and Fumble" series starring a planet-hopping girl and her robot, stunning one-shots such as Gilbert's Frida Kahlo biography "Frida," the shocking autobiographical fantasia "My Love Book," and much more!

Softcover, 286 pages, B&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $16.99.

2nd and later printings.

By Los Bros Hernandez.

The Love & Rockets library continues with this special volume!

Amor y Cohetes is the seventh volume in the new Complete Love & Rockets series, collecting together in one convenient package all the non-Maggie and non-Palomar stories by all three Hernandez Brothers from that classic first, 50-issue Love & Rockets series, including Gilbert's original 40-page sci-fi epic "BEM" from 1981's very first issue of Love & Rockets, Jaime's charming "Rocky and Fumble" series starring a planet-hopping girl and her robot, stunning one-shots such as Gilbert's Frida Kahlo biography "Frida," the shocking autobiographical fantasia "My Love Book," and much more!

Softcover, 286 pages, B&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $19.99.

Volume 1, 1st Printing. Written and Illustrated by Jaime Hernandez. These stories were originally published in the New York Times Sunday Magazine (2007), Love and Rockets Volume II #20 (2007), and Love and Rockets: New Stories #1-4 (2008-2011); some material was previously collected in the books God and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls (2012) and The Love Bunglers (2012). Softcover, 7.5" x 9", 268 pages, B&W. Cover price $19.99.

Love and Rockets: Book 20 - 1st printing. By Los Bros Hernandez. This collection of Jaime's famed "Maggie" stories contains the strangest left-turn in Maggie's life. She's getting divorced. What? You didn't even know she was married? Neither did anyone else! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 96 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $18.95.

1st printing. Story and art by Jaime Hernandez. This latest inexpensive and handy collection of Jaime Hernandez's early work picks up where 2010's Penny Century leaves off. Esperanza features an older, wiser Maggie, a maturing Hopey and introduces one of Jaime's greatest recent characters, Vivian the "Frogmouth," the near-psychotic bombshell. Softcover, 248 pages, B&W. Cover price $18.99.

1st printing. FROM THE PAGES OF Love and Rockets, THE LIFE OF ONE OF THE COMICS' MOST SEDUCTIVE HEROINES - "Five six. Hundred twenty-eight pounds. Forty-three twenty-two thirty-six. High soft lisp. Genius level I.Q." That's how motivational speaker Mark Herrera sums up Rosalba "Fritz" Martinez, bombshell, former punkette, former psychiatrist, "Z" movie star - in this supremely sexy, constantly surprising graphic novel. And Herrera should know, being only one of many to fall under Fritz's "lithping" spell - others including slobbish rocker Scott "The Hog" and high school nerd turned obsessive bodybuilder Enrique Escobar (and that's just her husbands). Hernandez has taken this suite of stories (including the 48-page graphic novelette "High Soft Lisp"), originally serialized in the second volume of Love and Rockets, and fleshed them out with a dozen brand new pages, creating an original and inventive (and very steamy) volume that, through its connections to his main character Luba (Fritz is Luba's half sister, and characters from the Luba stories pop up here), works both as a standalone graphic novel and a further exploration of Hernandez's rich world. Softcover, 144 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $16.99.

1st printing. Written by Marc Sobel, and Kristy Valenti. Art and Cover by Gilbert Hernandez and Jaime Hernandez. The Love and Rockets Companion contains interviews with Gilbert, Jaime and Mario Hernandez, foldout family trees for both Gilbert's Palomar and Jaime's Locas storylines, unpublished art, a character glossary, timelines and the most wide-ranging Hernandez Brothers bibliography ever compiled, including album and DVD covers, posters and more. A must-have for old fans and for those new to the series, it will make jumping in seem less daunting! Softcover, 7 1/2-in. x 9-in. 204 pages, B&W. Cover price $29.99.

Signed and numbered by Xaime & Beto Hernandez - 1st printing. By Los Bros Hernandez. A behind the scenes look at one of the all time Indey classics. Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 176 pages, B&W. Mature Readers NOTE: Limited to 750 copies. Cover price $39.95.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. By Los Bros Hernandez. A behind the scenes look at one of the all time Indy classics. Softcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 176 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $19.95.

For this book see - Music for Mechanics TPB (1985 FB) A Love and Rockets Collection 1-1ST Cover price $9.95.

Titan Books Edition - 1st printing. By Jaime Hernandez. The original adventures of barrio punkettes Maggie and Hopey. From punk music and gang warfare to death and female wrestling, "Love and Rockets" is widely acclaimed as having some of the strongest female characters in comics. Softcover, 7 1/2-in. x 10-in., 128 pages, B&W.

1st printing. Story and art by Jaime Hernandez. A collection of funny, romantic, and slice-of-life adventures from one of the most beloved independent comics creators in history. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 138 pages, B&W. Mature Readers

Love and Rockets: Book 19 - The Luba Trilogy: Book 1 of 3 - 1st printing. By Los Bros Hernandez. The first volume depicting Luba's post-Palomar life and times, this book takes the sometimes confusing strands of Gilbert's stories and weaves them into a satisfying thematic whole, as Luba tries to make sense of her family's lives in America. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 224 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $19.95.

Love and Rockets: Book 21 - The Luba Trilogy: Book 2 of 3 - 1st printing. By Los Bros Hernandez. Luba: Tome 2 - In his first graphic novel in two years, Hernandez's The Book of Ofelia begins with Luba, Ofelia and company trying to acclimate to life in America. When Ofelia decides to chronicle her life with Luba in a tell-all book, she discovers inspiration in Luba's young children - the one-armed Casimira, Socorro with the photographic memory, the loner Joselito and the silent Conchita. See Latino soap opera and soft-core porn, with touches of magic-realism, all in one! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 260 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $22.95.

Love and Rockets: Book 1 - 1st printing. Collects Love and Rockets (1982-1996 1st Series) #1-2. Includes full color cover gallery. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 10- 1/2-in., 150 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $9.95.

Love and Rockets: Book 1 - 2nd and later printings. Collects Love and Rockets (1982-1996 1st Series) #1-2. NOTE: Cover on reprints may vary. By Los Bros Hernandez. The original, seminal Love & Rockets comic book series, which ran for 50 issues from 1981 to 1996, singlehandedly defined the post-underground generation of comics that spawned Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware, and so many others. Now collected into 15 volumes, Love & Rockets is a body of work that The Nation has described as "one of the hidden treasures of our impoverished culture." Created by brothers Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario Hernandez, three Southern California Mexican-Americans armed with a passion for pop culture and punk rock, Love & Rockets gave a voice to minorities and women for the first time in the medium's then 50-year history and remains one of the greatest achievements in comic book history. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 150 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $18.95.

1st printing. Collects Penny Century (1997) #1-7. By Jaime Hernandez. A collection in the style of Maggie The Mechanic. Penny Century collects the well-loved comic book series of the same title and select stories featuring Penny from Love and Rockets, as well as the long out-of-print graphic novel, Whoa Nellie! The Penny material features... Penny! The hottest super heroin of Earth and beyond! Whoa Nellie is hands down the best female wrestling comic of ALL TIME. From the master cartoonist Jaime Hernandez! Softcover, 240 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $18.99.

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1st printing. "LOCAS: Part 3!" By Jaime Hernandez. Maggie, Hopey, and the rest of the Locas prowl Los Angeles, the East Coast, and parts in between trying to recapture their carefree youth. Split up from Hopey yet again, Maggie bounces back and forth between a one-laundromat town in Texas where she contends with both her inner demons and a murderous prostitute, and Camp Vicki where she must fend off her Aunt Vicki's attempt to make her a professional wrestler and the unwanted advances of the amorous wrestler Gina. And what's this about Maggie getting married? Softcover, 288 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $16.95.

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2nd and later printings. "LOCAS: Part 3!" Story and art by Jaime Hernandez. In these classic "Locas" stories, Jaime drops a narrative bomb on Hopey (and us) in "Wigwam Bam"; Maggie contends with her inner demons, a murderous hooker, and an amorous lady wrestler; and Maggie, getting married? Softcover, 288 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $18.99.

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1st printing. "PALOMAR: Part 3!" By Gilbert Hernandez. Beyond Palomar collected two of Hernandez's ground-breaking works about the Central American village in a single affordable book. "Poison River" traces the pre-Palomar childhood of Luba, her teenage marriage to gangster Peter Rio, the secrets behind her mysterious mother, all the way up to her eventual escape and arrival in Palomar. "Love and Rockets X" takes us from Beverly Hills to the dangerous east side and introduces us to a diverse cast of characters, including a lowlife rock 'n' roll band, a posse of black youths, a ditzy Hollywood mom and her spoiled son, a gay activist filmmaker and his rebellious, half-Iraqi daughter, and a group of racist thugs that set the story in motion. Softcover, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $16.95.

2nd and later printings. "PALOMAR: Part 3!" By Gilbert Hernandez. Beyond Palomar collected two of Hernandez's ground-breaking works about the Central American village in a single affordable book. "Poison River" traces the pre-Palomar childhood of Luba, her teenage marriage to gangster Peter Rio, the secrets behind her mysterious mother, all the way up to her eventual escape and arrival in Palomar. "Love and Rockets X" takes us from Beverly Hills to the dangerous east side and introduces us to a diverse cast of characters, including a lowlife rock 'n' roll band, a posse of black youths, a ditzy Hollywood mom and her spoiled son, a gay activist filmmaker and his rebellious, half-Iraqi daughter, and a group of racist thugs that set the story in motion. Softcover, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $18.99.

1st printing.

Written by Mario Hernandez. Art and cover by Gilbert Hernandez.

This comics omnibus includes the graphic novels Julio's Day and The Children of Palomar, as well as never-before-collected work by brothers Mario and Gilbert Hernandez, some of which has never been available since its early 2000s run in comic book single issues.

Children of Palomar and Other Tales (the fifteenth volume in our Complete Love and Rockets Library omnibuses and the eighth Gilbert volume) begins with "Me for the Unknown," uncollected since its original 2001-2004 run in Love and Rockets Vol. II comic books.

Written by Mario Hernandez and drawn by Gilbert Hernandez, it traces the Rabelaisian journey of Tagg Lillard. A U.S. citizen with a seemingly perfect life working in Latin America, he escapes a death trap clutching important papers, and an imperious CEO and his manservant pursue him through a land plagued by colonialist/corporate greed. Also collected: one of their joints from 2008, "Chiro el Indio." In The Children of Palomar suite of short stories (2006-2007; collected in 2013), there are many mysterious visitors, an apparition that haunts childless women, and readers learn how Chelo lost her eye. And in Julio's Day, which originally ran from 2001-2008 and was collected in 2013, a man's life-threaded with war, loss, illness, and forbidden love-spans a century.

Children of Palomar and Other Tales: A Love and Rockets Book is part of the Love and Rockets series.

Softcover, 242 pages, B&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $24.99.

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1st printing. Story and art by Gilbert Hernandez. Comics Dementia collects buried treasures, oddities, and rarities from outposts of the Love and Rockets galaxy by Gilbert Hernandez. Most of these stories haven't been available since the 1990s. Saints, sinners, and the Candidelike Roy mingle in jungles, cocktail lounges, living rooms and outer space. Ditko meets Melville meets Bob Hope-but the party really starts when the Alfred E. Neuman of the Love and Rockets multi-verse, Errata Stigmata, makes her entrance. Softcover, 224 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $19.99.

1st printing. "A Love and Rockets Collection!" Collects Love and Rockets (2001-2007 2nd Series) #11-19. Story and art by Jaime Hernandez. A standalone graphic novel from the Locas universe! It starts with a barely-glimpsed slaying ("Life Through Whispers") and ends with a funeral ("Male Torso Found in L.A. River"). Even though - or perhaps because - he's still carrying the torch for Maggie, Ray diligently pursues the dangerous and annoying "Frogmouth," aspiring actress and full-time train wreck, from seedy bars and back alleys through comic book conventions, all the way to the ultimate, and unexpected, consummation. Meanwhile, Hopey spends an eventful week during which she undergoes a couple of major life changes, both personal and professional - and for that matter cosmetic. Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 122 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $19.99.

Love and Rockets: Book 22 - 1st printing. By Los Bros Hernandez. Collects the new adventures of Maggie Chascarrillo, as serialized in the Love & Rockets comic book. Maggie is now the resident building-manager of the notorious Capri Apartments deep in the heart of the San Fernando Valley, where imaginary dogs roam its walkways, all the air conditioners are broken, and the empty swimming pool is covered with flies. As if the eccentric, oddball tenants weren't weird enough, Maggie's houseguest and old friend Izzy Ortiz shakes things up with her usual nervous breakdowns, nocturnal screaming, and obsessive fly-swatting. Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 120 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $18.95.

1st printing. "LOCAS: Part 2!" By Jaime Hernandez. Meet the spunky Maggie, her annoying best friend and sometime lover Hopey, and their circle of friends, including their bombshell friend Penny Century, Maggie's weirdo mentor Izzy - as well as the wrestler Rena Titanon and Maggie's handsome love interest, Rand Race. Also included is a whole cycle of wrestling stories starring or co-starring Rena Titanon, whose return was memorably chronicled in the New York Times serial, "La Maggie La Locas." Softcover, 288 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $14.99.

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2nd and later printings. "LOCAS: Part 2!" By Jaime Hernandez. Meet the spunky Maggie, her annoying best friend and sometime lover Hopey, and their circle of friends, including their bombshell friend Penny Century, Maggie's weirdo mentor Izzy - as well as the wrestler Rena Titanon and Maggie's handsome love interest, Rand Race. Also included is a whole cycle of wrestling stories starring or co-starring Rena Titanon, whose return was memorably chronicled in the New York Times serial, "La Maggie La Locas." Softcover, 288 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $19.99.

1st printing. "Palomar: Part 1!"

Story and art by Gilbert Hernandez.

This volume collects the first half of Gilbert Hernandez's acclaimed magical-realist tales of Palomar, continuing on through such modern-day classics as "Ecce Homo," "Act of Contrition," "Duck Feet," and the great love story "For the Love of Carmen."

Softcover, 292 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $14.95.

2nd and later printings. "Palomar: Part 1!"

Story and art by Gilbert Hernandez.

This volume collects the first half of Gilbert Hernandez's acclaimed magical-realist tales of Palomar, continuing on through such modern-day classics as "Ecce Homo," "Act of Contrition," "Duck Feet," and the great love story "For the Love of Carmen."

Softcover, 292 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $18.99.

Add to cart Very Fine $11.75

1st printing. "PALOMAR: Part 2!" Story and art by Gilbert Hernandez. This volume will collect the second half of Gilbert Hernandez's acclaimed magical-realist tales of 'Palomar,' the small Central American town, beginning with the landmark 'Human Diastrophism,' named one of the greatest comic book stories of the 20th Century by The Comics Journal, and continuing on through more modern-day classics. 'Human Diastrophism' is the only full graphic novel length 'Palomar' story ever created by Gilbert. Also included are all the post-'Diastrophism' stories, in which Sheriff Luba's past (as seen in the epic Poison River) comes back to haunt her, and the seeds are sown for the 'Palomar diaspora' that ends this dense, enthralling book. Softcover, 7 1/2-in. x 9 1/4-in., 256 pages, B&W. Cover price $14.95.

2nd and later printings. "PALOMAR: Part 2!" Story and art by Gilbert Hernandez. This volume will collect the second half of Gilbert Hernandez's acclaimed magical-realist tales of 'Palomar,' the small Central American town, beginning with the landmark 'Human Diastrophism,' named one of the greatest comic book stories of the 20th Century by The Comics Journal, and continuing on through more modern-day classics. 'Human Diastrophism' is the only full graphic novel length 'Palomar' story ever created by Gilbert. Also included are all the post-'Diastrophism' stories, in which Sheriff Luba's past (as seen in the epic Poison River) comes back to haunt her, and the seeds are sown for the 'Palomar diaspora' that ends this dense, enthralling book. Softcover, 7 1/2-in. x 9 1/4-in., 256 pages, B&W. Cover price $19.99.

1st printing.

Story and art by Jaime Hernandez.

In Is This How You See Me?, Maggie and Hopey get the band back together - literally. Now middle-aged, they leave their significant others at home and take a weekend road trip to reluctantly attend a punk rock reunion in their old neighborhood. The present is masterfully threaded with a flashback set in 1979, during the very formative stages in Maggie and Hopey's lifelong friendship, as the perceived invincibility of youth is expertly juxtaposed against all of the love, heartbreak, and self-awareness that comes with lives actually lived. The result is no sentimental victory lap, however - this is one of the great writers of literary fiction at the peak of his powers, continuing to scale new heights as an artist.

Hernandez's acclaimed ongoing comics series Love and Rockets has entertained readers for over 35 years, and his beloved characters - Maggie, Hopey, Ray, Doyle, Daffy, Mike Tran, and so many others - have become fully realized literary creations. Is This How You See Me? collects Hernandez's latest interconnected vignettes, serialized over the past four years in Love and Rockets, into a long-form masterpiece for the first time.

Hardcover, 96 pages, B&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $19.99.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "The Maggie and Hopey Stories!" By Jaime Hernandez. One of the most humane, graceful and imaginatively inexhaustible artists in American popular culture, Jaime Hernandez has created in Locas one of the great American novels of the last 25 years, graphic or otherwise. Maggie's story begins in the early-1980s Southern California rock scene, when it was shifting from the excesses of glitter rock to the gritty basics of punk and new wave. She quickly befriends Hopey Glass, a feisty anti-authoritarian punkette who quickly becomes Maggie's on-again, off-again lover and a constant presence in her life throughout the book. This book contains all the Maggie stories from the first Love & Rockets series. Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 704 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $49.95.

Volume 1 - 2nd and later printings. "The Maggie and Hopey Stories!" By Jaime Hernandez. One of the most humane, graceful and imaginatively inexhaustible artists in American popular culture, Jaime Hernandez has created in Locas one of the great American novels of the last 25 years, graphic or otherwise. Maggie's story begins in the early-1980s Southern California rock scene, when it was shifting from the excesses of glitter rock to the gritty basics of punk and new wave. She quickly befriends Hopey Glass, a feisty anti-authoritarian punkette who quickly becomes Maggie's on-again, off-again lover and a constant presence in her life throughout the book. This book contains all the Maggie stories from the first Love & Rockets series. Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 704 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $49.95.

BEM, Music For Monsters by 'Bert, Mechan-X, Barrio Huerta, Penny Century You're Fired, How To Kill A....By Isabel Ruebens, Locas Tambien by Jamie Cover price $4.95.