Brief Description:
"Collects the first several years' worth of stories immediately following the conclusion of the first volume of 'Love and rockets'"--P. [4] of cover.
Marc Notes:
Collects the first several years' worth of stories immediately following the conclusion of the first volume of 'Love and rockets'--P. [4] of cover.;Includes a graphic novella entitled 'Whoa, Nellie!' and several other short graphic stories.;Penny Century (Beatriz Garcia) is one of the original six Locas, together with Maggie Chascarillo, Hopey Glass, Izzy Ortiz Reubens, Terry Downe, and Daphne (Daffy) Matsumoto. She is one of the several wives of Herve R. Costigan, a mysterious billionaire. She has at least two children during the marriage, but both are fathered by men other than Costigan.
Review Quotes:
I could point to the frenetic pace of many of the stories; the cute, odd, and endearing sort of strangeness spawned in this lightly magical universe; or even the beautiful art, which is truly the mark of this master cartoonist. ... Soup to nuts, this is a great book.--Jeremy Nisen "Under the Radar"
Publisher Marketing:
The eighth volume of
The Complete Love and Rockets Library is the fourth omnibus edition of writer-artist Jaime Hernandez's Locas storyline. It starts off with a blast with "Whoa, Nellie!," a graphic novelette in which Maggie, who has settled in with her pro-wrestler aunt for a while, experiences that wild and wooly world first-hand. Then it's back to chills and spills with the old cast of Hopey, Ray Dominguez, and Izzy Ortiz -- including Maggie's romantic 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 behind Beatriz "Penny Century" Garcia, Maggie's long-time, bleached-blonde bombshell friend, 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 the Menace -style. These comics originally appeared from 1996 to 2002.
Review Citations:
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Publishers Weekly 03/22/2010 pg. 59 (EAN 9781606993422, Paperback)
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Wilson Graphic Novels Catalog 04/11/2019 (EAN 9781606993422, Paperback)
Contributor Bio:Hernandez, Jaime
Jaime Hernandez was one of six siblings born and raised in Oxnard, California. His mother passed down a love of comics, which for Jaime became a passion rivaled only by his interest in the burgeoning punk rock scene of 1970s Southern California. Together with his brothers Gilbert and Mario, Jaime co-created the ongoing comic book series
Love and Rockets in 1981, which Gilbert and Jaime continue to both write and draw to this day. Jaime's work began as a perfect (if unlikely) synthesis of the anarchistic, do-it-yourself aesthetic of the punk scene and an elegant cartooning style that recalled masters such as Charles M. Schulz and Alex Toth.
Love and Rockets has evolved into one of the great bodies of American literary fiction, spanning five decades and countless high-water marks in the medium's history. In 2016, Hernandez won the prestigious
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for his graphic novel,
The Love Bunglers. In 2017, he (along with Gilbert) was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame, and, in 2018, he released his first children's book, the Aesop Book Prize-winning
The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America. He is a lifelong Angeleno.
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