The Love Bunglers by Jaime Hernandez
Featuring Hernandez's longtime Love and Rockets heroine Maggie, the suppression of family history is the initial thread that ties The Love Bunglers together. 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 is what's made her a compelling character. This story encapsulates Maggie's emotional history as it moves from resignation to memories of loss, to sudden violence (a theme in this story) and eventually to love and contentment.
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 | 9781606997291 |
| ISBN 10 | 1606997297 |
| Title | The Love Bunglers |
| Author | Jaime Hernandez |
| Series | Love And Rockets Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Fantagraphics |
| Year published | 2014-05-02 |
| Number of pages | 114 |
| Prizes | Winner of L.A. Times Book Prize (Graphic Novel) 2014 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |