Love and Rockets: The Sketchbooks by Gilbert 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 they've drawn over the last 40 years. Here, for the first time in three decades, see the work they put into becoming those artists.
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 | 9781683968795 |
| ISBN 10 | 1683968794 |
| Title | Love and Rockets: The Sketchbooks |
| Author | Gilbert Hernandez |
| Series | Love And Rockets Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Fantagraphics |
| Year published | 2024-04-23 |
| Number of pages | 408 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |