I ran into Jaime's comics first year at college and every time I had break from class I would immediately go to the comic book section at the school bookstore and read that stuff like there was no tomorrow. It was great for me because it got me back into loving comics again and the first comic that had ethnic elements I could relate to.
I stumbed on L&R a few years ago when I was about 16...I had never seen anything like it. I grew up liking comics, especially the superhero stuff, having grown up watching the 90s animated series such as X-Men and Batman TAS. L&R really opened my eyes to what comics have the potential to be and inspired me to try new things with my own art.
There's no good reason on God's green earth that LOCAS II wasn't up for a National Book Award. It's one of the most profoundly unique and humane books I've read in ages.
Love and Rockets is a briliant comic series. touching, human, surreal, sexy and gritty. Gilbert's own stuff is great too, the stuff set in Palomar. I think Jaime's the better artist but i really really love the stories in duck feet and human diastrophism
How strange...I've always followed Love and Rockets for years and it never mattered where it originated - thus I was caught up in the story. My 90's e-mail account was named after Race and for each Halloween would dress in his likeness. L & R are my best loved.
Love and Rockets will always be the best....it's a fact that requires no other validation than my own conviction but its great to know that in the world beyond the timeless stories other people agree....
When i saw the art style, lucha libre, beautiful huge breasted thick hipped women, punk rock, Latino family, car hopping cholos and telenovela story line mixed tense intrigue i knew i had found the BEST COMIC EVER WRITTEN
I'd collected random issues of Love & Rockets over the years, but missed out on the continuing storylines. I advise anyone like me to read the bound books - these guys are brilliant.
Xamie Hernandez is a genius, I have been reading Love And Rockets since I was 14 in 1986 and it grew up as I grew up. The best comic book of all time. Those characters seem so real to me. Do they to you too?
I'm Mexican (from Mexico City) and have been collecting Xaime's work for about 15 years now. I think comics as a medium reached a pretty good level with Love and Rockets. I hope he keeps doing them forever!
Jaime is so cool. I wish I could kick it with him, lol.
delicatebiscuit 1 month ago in playlist RELAXATION
It's still good.
DuckCasey 6 months ago
he's so fucking good
shatterjack 1 year ago
that's kinda hilarious like 5 seconds after the ambulance part, the ambulance was passing by my block.
Coatl360 1 year ago
Thank you thank you thank you for posting this! This comic was my lifeline in high school. A true representation of my hometown and my experiences.
animaliberation831 1 year ago
found a few old issues of l&r yesterday @ a collectable swap
i never knew they were oversize!
thanks pbs/kcet
chrissstopherG 1 year ago
I ran into Jaime's comics first year at college and every time I had break from class I would immediately go to the comic book section at the school bookstore and read that stuff like there was no tomorrow. It was great for me because it got me back into loving comics again and the first comic that had ethnic elements I could relate to.
Technicolormorena 1 year ago 3
I stumbed on L&R a few years ago when I was about 16...I had never seen anything like it. I grew up liking comics, especially the superhero stuff, having grown up watching the 90s animated series such as X-Men and Batman TAS. L&R really opened my eyes to what comics have the potential to be and inspired me to try new things with my own art.
SpiderFan1962 1 year ago
There's no good reason on God's green earth that LOCAS II wasn't up for a National Book Award. It's one of the most profoundly unique and humane books I've read in ages.
hutchowen 2 years ago 4
Love and Rockets is a briliant comic series. touching, human, surreal, sexy and gritty. Gilbert's own stuff is great too, the stuff set in Palomar. I think Jaime's the better artist but i really really love the stories in duck feet and human diastrophism
mimibeamie89 2 years ago
No one in their right mind can think that Jaime's (or Gilbert's for that matter) work is OUTDATED! You guys rule.
I'm still as giddy with anticipation when I'm walking home with a new issue of L&R as I used to in early 90's when I found the series.
Heh, don't have a Widows tattoo (the spider etc) in my arm for nothing...
RESPECT!
Lonkka665 2 years ago 6
I Love Maggie and Hopey--Jaime Hernandez you are my hero!
salvaruvian 2 years ago
How strange...I've always followed Love and Rockets for years and it never mattered where it originated - thus I was caught up in the story. My 90's e-mail account was named after Race and for each Halloween would dress in his likeness. L & R are my best loved.
sotdoc 2 years ago
Jamie's "Locas" stories are among my all-time favorite comics.
StephenPytak 2 years ago
Love and Rockets will always be the best....it's a fact that requires no other validation than my own conviction but its great to know that in the world beyond the timeless stories other people agree....
ThePolkeast 2 years ago
When i saw the art style, lucha libre, beautiful huge breasted thick hipped women, punk rock, Latino family, car hopping cholos and telenovela story line mixed tense intrigue i knew i had found the BEST COMIC EVER WRITTEN
SYNDICADO 2 years ago 2
I'd collected random issues of Love & Rockets over the years, but missed out on the continuing storylines. I advise anyone like me to read the bound books - these guys are brilliant.
alternit 2 years ago
My favourite graphic novel artists of all time (tm) are as follows:
-Alan Moore
-Neil Gaiman
-Jaime Hernandez
No one else applies.
kevlonk 3 years ago
garth ennis?
ZombiTitanJuggernaut 2 years ago
Okay, maybe Garth.
kevlonk 2 years ago
Some day the Brothers' stuff will be exalted like the works of William Faulkner.
superjules 3 years ago 2
Xamie Hernandez is a genius, I have been reading Love And Rockets since I was 14 in 1986 and it grew up as I grew up. The best comic book of all time. Those characters seem so real to me. Do they to you too?
spiritualgunfighter 3 years ago
growing up in a barrio with skaters and punks, ...yeah they do. i love the Luba storyline. Maggie reminds me of ALOT of people.
SYNDICADO 2 years ago
I'm Mexican (from Mexico City) and have been collecting Xaime's work for about 15 years now. I think comics as a medium reached a pretty good level with Love and Rockets. I hope he keeps doing them forever!
RoberSoul77 3 years ago
fuck outdated! Xaime's style is TIMELESS!!! I love & rockets....thanks so much for posung this....
holitinne 3 years ago
dear god i cannot explain how much i love xaime y beto
motherthirteen 3 years ago
i look up to these guys alot, it was so wonderful to read something like this as a teenage mexican girl from l.a., and now. probably always.
reesters 3 years ago
i accidentally found a book called, "Perla la Loca"
I read it and couldnt belive how good it was.
Im 19 and i think that this style would attract a lot of younger people if you try to get it out there.
mexicanbear253 3 years ago
I just love Love'n Rockets comics and Los Bros
Hernandez's work!
hopeyfan 3 years ago
dude it's always been good, and me being from east los and into punk, comics, and lucha libre the hernandez bros got it down
chachachuy 3 years ago
it is still good
finfito 3 years ago