Love and Rockets: The First Fifty by Gilbert Hernandez

Love and Rockets: The First Fifty by Gilbert Hernandez

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Fantagraphics' flagship series, this prestigious box set presents bound facsimiles of the original fifty issues of the Love and Rockets comics magazines.

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Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez are now recognized as two of the greatest cartoonists in the history of the medium -- award-winning, world-renowned, critically acclaimed. But in 1982 when the first issue of Love and Rockets came out, they (occasionally working with their brother, Mario) were two young, struggling, unknown cartoonists who were bucking the dominant comic book trend of costumed characters and adolescent content with intimate, complex, humane, novelistic stories told in comics form. Love and Rockets has appeared in a variety of formats over the years and continues to this day, but the original 50-issue run represents a milestone in comics history. Fantagraphics is celebrating and honoring the 40th anniversary of Love and Rockets and the debut of the Hernandez's' first published comics with a gigantic eight-volume slipcase reprinting each issue in a facsimile edition.

Their organic body of work is available in a series of scrupulously and logically organized graphic novels, but here Fantagraphics honors the original quarterly format by presenting the comics as they appeared between 1982 and 1996, recreating not only the reading experience of tens of thousands of fans, but of a particularly fecund period in comics history when a new generation of cartoonists was exploding the idea of what comics could be. Painstakingly recreated in issue-by-issue facsimile, this boxed set includes every cover, comics page, and letter column (even advertising!) in seven hardcover volumes. An eighth volume densely collates selected essays, reviews, and profiles that appeared in the popular (and unpopular) press between 1982 and 1996, along with over 100 pages of additional, rarely-seen comics from the period by all three Brothers, plus dozens of book and magazine covers -- a virtual history of the growth of Love and Rockets and the simultaneous rise of the literary comics movement of which they were exemplars and trailblazers.

Product dimensions for Love and Rockets: The First Fifty:

Slipcase: 9.5"W x 11.5"H x 9"D

Weight: 27.4 lbs.

Gilbert Hernandez is co-creator of Love and Rockets, one of the most celebrated comic-book series of all time. As children, the six Hernandez siblings were voracious comics readers, leading Hernandez to join with brothers Jaime and Mario in 1982 for the self-publication of the first issue of Love and Rockets, a milestone in the development of alternative comics. Love and Rockets and Los Bros. Hernandez, as they became known, received instant acclaim, and the independent comics publisher Fantagraphics offered to publish the series. Since then, Gilbert has been immensely prolific, creating under the Love and Rockets banner such comics classics as Palomar, Love and Rockets X, and Luba, for which he has received a Kirby and Inkpot award and six Harvey awards. In recent years, he has written and illustrated a series of comic-book adaptations of B movies featuring Fritz, his therapist-turned-actress character from Luba, in addition to collaborations with Mario Hernandez for the story Me for the Unknown and the science-fiction series Citizen Rex. In 2009, Hernandez was awarded a United States Artists fellowship for literature, and in 2013, he received the PEN USA Literary Award. The author lives in Las Vegas, NV..

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781683965541
ISBN 10	168396554X
Title	Love and Rockets: The First Fifty
Author	Gilbert Hernandez
Series	Love And Rockets Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Fantagraphics
Year published	2022-11-22
Number of pages	2200
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.