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Maggie the Mechanic (Love & Rockets) Paperback – September 19, 2017

by Jaime Hernandez (Illustrator)

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The 25th anniversary Love and Rockets celebration continues with this, the first of three volumes collecting the adventures of the spunky Maggie, her annoying best friend and sometimes lover Hopey, and their circle of friends, including their bombshell friend Penny Century. This book collects the earliest, punkiest, most heavily sci-fi stories.
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  1. Part of Series
    Love & Rockets Library
  2. Print length
    272 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Fantagraphics Books
  5. Publication date
    September 19, 2017
  6. Dimensions
    7 x 1 x 9 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    1560977841
  8. ISBN-13
    978-1560977841
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Love and Rockets, Fantagraphics, Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Mario Hernandez

In 1982, Fantagraphics Books published the first issue of Love and Rockets by the Hernandez brothers (Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario), and the series has since gone on to become the publisher’s flagship title, a monumental work of graphic fiction. Collected under the umbrella of L&R, the series is comprised of two separate ongoing stories: Gilbert chronicles the colorful inhabitants of the fictional Latin American town of Palomar, while Jaime follows Latinx friends and sometime lovers Maggie and Hopey and their circle of friends in the punk scene of the fictional Californian town Hoppers. Over the course of L&R’s multi-decade run, its characters have aged in real time, lending these stories a depth and weight that few literary works achieve. The Hernandez brothers continue to release new issues of Love and Rockets.

Fantagraphics marks the 40th anniversary of this landmark comic book series in 2022 — The Complete Love and Rockets Library collects L&R in affordable paperback editions. Love and Rockets: The First Fifty is an 8-volume box set presenting bound facsimiles of the original fifty issues of the Love and Rockets comics magazines including every cover, comics page, and letter column (even advertising!) with 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. This is essential reading for all alternative comics fans.

Love and Rockets, Fantagraphics, Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Mario Hernandez

Love and Rockets, Fantagraphics, Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Mario Hernandez

Love and Rockets, Fantagraphics, Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Mario Hernandez

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"I don’t really understand why the material of Love and Rockets isn’t widely regarded as one of the finest pieces of fiction of the last 35 years. Because it is."
― Neil Gaiman

About the Author

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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