Download or read book Perla la Loca written by Jaime Hernandez and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2007-12-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?
Download or read book Wigwam Bam written by Jaime Hernandez and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the eleventh volume of The Love and Rockets series -- in which its theme of the death of punk-rock music as a force for the future is symbolized through the ending of Maggie and Hopey's relationship.
Download or read book Chester Square written by Jaime Hernandez and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book LOCAS written by Jaime Hernandez and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mexican-American rock girl Maggie Chascarrillo and feisty anti-authoritarian punkette Hopey Glass first meet, a turbulent yet enduring relationship is born.
Download or read book Penny Century written by Jaime Hernandez and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 with her pro-wrestler aunt for a while, experiences that wild and woolly world first-hand.
Download or read book The Girl from H O P P E R S written by Jaime Hernandez and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2007-07-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects the adventures of the spunky Maggie; her annoying, pixie-ish 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 aging but still heroic wrestler Rena Titanon and Maggie's handsome love interest, Rand Race. After the sci-fi trappings of his earliest stories (as seen in Maggie the Mechanic, the first volume in this series), Hernandez refined his approach, settling on the more naturalistic environment of the fictional Los Angeles barrio, Hoppers, and the lives of the young Mexican-Americans and punk rockers who live there. A central story and one of Jaime's absolute peaks is "The Death of Speedy." Such is Jaime's mastery that even though the end of the story is telegraphed from the very title, the downhill spiral of Speedy, the local heartthrob, is utterly compelling and ultimately quite surprising. Also in this volume, Maggie begins her on-again off-again romance with Ray D., leading to friction and an eventual separation from Hopey.
Download or read book The Love Bunglers written by Jaime Hernandez and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Love and Rockets written by Jaime Hernandez and published by Titan Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maggie, Hopey, and the rest of the Locas prowl Los Angeles, the East Coast. This title unlocks the secret of Maggie and Hopey's relationship. In 1982, brothers Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez created "Love & Rockets", an astonishing mixture of magical realism, science fiction, and meditations on the human condition which became one of the most critically acclaimed series of all time. Perla la Loca includes the long story "Wigwam Bam", as Maggie, Hopey, and the rest of the Locas prowl Los Angeles, the East Coast, and parts in between trying to recapture the carefree spirit of those early days, and unlocks the secret of Maggie and Hopey's relationship - which develops further in the many other tales collected here. Award-winning writer and artist Jaime Hernandez presents his third collection of "Love & Rockets" stories - a must for any fan of truly adult comics! It is intended for adults!
Download or read book Maggie the Mechanic written by Jaime Hernandez and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2007-03-17 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of three volumes chronicles the globe-trotting adventures and exploits of Maggie, her best friend and occasional lover Hopey, and their companions, Peggy Century, her weirdo mentor Izzy, aging wrestler Rena Titanon, and Maggie's new love interest, Rand Race. Original.
Download or read book Harvey Kurtzman s Jungle Book written by Harvey Kurtzman and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book is considered one of the "Top 100 Comics of the 20th Century" by The Comics Journal and is widely regarded to be a lost classic. Written and illustrated by Kurtzman, Jungle Book inspired and influenced comics creators such as Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Gilbert Shelton, and Terry Gilliam. Back in print for the first time in over twenty-five years, this deluxe hardcover features an essay by comics archivist Denis Kitchen; a new introduction by Gilbert Shelton; a conversational afterword between Pete Poplaski and Robert Crumb; and and a selection of Kurtzman's photographs, correspondence, and artwork. The definitive edition of this graphic novel masterpiece is not to be missed!
Download or read book Perla la Loca written by Jaime Hernandez and published by . This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Locas II written by Jaime Hernandez and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second, doorstop-sized omnibus volume of Locas tales collects over 12 years' worth of stories from the award-winning Love & Rockets comics, picking up shortly after Maggie and Hopey's long-awaited reunion.
Download or read book Under the Feet of Jesus written by Helena Maria Viramontes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-04-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature “Stunning.”—Newsweek With the same audacity with which John Steinbeck wrote about migrant worker conditions in The Grapes of Wrath and T.C. Boyle in The Tortilla Curtain, Viramontes presents a moving and powerful vision of the lives of the men, women, and children who endure a second-class existence and labor under dangerous conditions in California's fields. At the center of this powerful tale is Estrella, a girl about to cross the perilous border to womanhood. What she knows of life comes from her mother, who has survived abandonment by her husband in a land that treats her as if she were invisible, even though she and her children pick the crops of the farms that feed its people. But within Estrella, seeds of growth and change are stirring. And in the arms of Alejo, they burst into a full, fierce flower as she tastes the joy and pain of first love. Pushed to the margins of society, she learns to fight back and is able to help the young farmworker she loves when his ambitions and very life are threatened in a harvest of death. Infused with the beauty of the California landscape and shifting splendors of the passing seasons juxtaposed with the bleakness of poverty, this vividly imagined novel is worthy of the people it celebrates and whose story it tells so magnificently. The simple lyrical beauty of Viramontes' prose, her haunting use of image and metaphor, and the urgency of her themes all announce Under the Feat of Jesus as a landmark work of American fiction.
Download or read book High Soft Lisp written by Gilbert Hernandez and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gilbert 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.
Download or read book Finder Chase the Lady written by Carla Speed McNeil and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate over twenty years of Carla Speed McNeil's Finder with this new color collection! As Finder: Chase the Lady's complex heroine, Rachel Grosvenor doesn't have time to celebrate her recent Llaverac clan victories. Every win seems to have come with a price. Her new title comes with too many responsibilities, her new home comes with too many expenses, and the Ascians who seem to have adopted her also fill her house with complications. Her assistant is in love with her, she's about to lose everything if she doesn't marry up, and she finds herself possessed by an ancient Ascian spirit. Then Jaeger returns. Collects all Finder: Chase the Lady chapters from Dark Horse Presents, as well as never-printed concluding chapters to finish the story, all DHP covers, and a bonus footnotes section.
Download or read book Esperanza written by Jaime Hernandez and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this batch of “Locas” stories by Jaime Hernandez from the pages of Love and Rockets Volume II (picking up where 2010’s Penny Century collection left off), an older and wiser Maggie faces down her old demons and the “Ghost of Hoppers” in a full-length graphic novel (which also introduces one of Jaime’s greatest recent characters, Vivian the “Frogmouth,” the near-psychotic bombshell). Meanwhile, the ever-feisty but maturing Hopey (her Spanish birth name giving this collection its title) transitions from tending bar to teaching kindergarten (while still juggling a complex love life), and the final quarter of the book shows Maggie’s lovable ex Ray Dominguez being dragged into the aftermath of a grisly murder thanks to his falling for the Frogmouth.
Download or read book Flies on the Ceiling written by Jaime Hernandez and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes cover the Hernandez Brothers' work from the first Love & Rockets series, 1982-1996, calendar illustrations from 1989-1993, covers from the series, and hard to find drawings from various publications.
