Love & Rockets Links
Last updated 9 Feb 2006. Mail me with changes!
- Bob's
Comics Reviews: Jaime Hernandez
- Why Jaime is m' main man; and what are the best L&R books.
- Fantagraphics page
- They finally seem to be keeping this up to date. Come here for
breaking news, such as the start of a new Love & Rockets comic;
or go to these rather disappointing, catalog-style pages on Los Bros.
- Jaime
Hernandez chronology
- If you got here from my page, you've already seen this. An
obsessively compiled chronology of all of Jaime's stories.
- Jaime
Hernandez character list
- All the characters in Jaime's comics, cross-linked to the
chronology.
- Love & Rockets message board
- Lukas Kustner has just started an L&R message board (the first I'm
aware of, at any rate, and it's about time).
- Los Bros Hernandez duet, with kissing
- An excellent interview with Los Bros at Salon, with some
nice ruminations on the usual questions about women, and the
news that Jaime is engaged (awww). The interviewer, Amy Benfer,
also has some ruminations on the comics.
- Salon review
- Very nice review of Ghost of Hoppers. Click through the ad (it takes only a few seconds) to read the whole review.
- Chrisis Ink
- Chrisis calls itself a "church of art", and includes a shrine to
Jaime, with some slick scans and a sort of prose poem of homage.
- Mi Vida Loca: A Love and Rockets Resource
- Sarah Graham's page of stuff on L&R and other graphic novels,
including some print resources.
- The Nation ravingly reviews L&R
- By Patrick Markee, who thinks it's literature. This must
be Gary Groth's wet dream.
- Love and Rockets
- J. Stephen Bolhafner discusses both Hernandez brothers,
including reviews of each of the books.
- Artbomb
- A brief intro to Jaime, plus good capsule reviews of five of his books.
- Copacetic Comics
- An affectionate general intro to los Bros.
- Time 100: Innovators - Storytellers
- A short bit on both Bros-- not deep, but hey, it's a mention in Time.
(It also has a recent picture of them, which is worth a click!)
- Rambles
- Tom Knapp reviews most of the early volumes (mostly focussing on Beto,
however).
- Love and Rockets, Stage Two!
- A plug piece on the revived Love and Rockets comic.
- The Unauthorized Love & Rockets Page
- An extensive gallery, plus character descriptions.
Includes some of Jaime's album covers.
- The Unlovely
L&R Home Page
- Arthur Goldstuck's account of the thought police going after L&R
in South Africa; plus an interview with Los Bros.
- No Joke: Comics for Grownups
- A newspaper interview, by J. Stephen Bolhafner, with Los Bros. Basic stuff, but some of the
basic questions-- e.g. why los Bros do women characters so well-- are
pretty interesting.
- Psycomic
- A (positive) review of Whoa, Nellie!, by Gabe Soria.
- Comics Review - Penny Century
- An even more glowing review of Penny Century #3, by Joe Zabel.
- L&R Concordance
- John McCoy's guide to what stories from the comic are in the first 10 collection
- Jaime en Gilbert Hernandez
- A good-sized page in Dutch on the comic.
- La bédéthèque idéale
- A review of Modern Sex, Jaime in French-- one of about 50 titles
the site thinks belongs in the "ideal comics library".
-
Fan Grrl
- Part of a grrl zine, "Jitterbug Fantasia". Excellent discussions of many comics, including L&R.
- CyberComix
- An interview with Los Bros in Portuguese, at about the time of the Maggie & Hopey Color Special...
Jaime reports that the industry is dying and he's no longer lionized at conventions.
He also mentions... big surprise... that it was Beto who exerted the most pressure
to finish work during the L&R days.
- Ediciones La Cúpula
- The cover and a brief description, en castellano, of the Spanish edition of Las Mujeres Perdidas.
- Reprodukt Comics
- A biography of Jaime in German, from his German publisher.
- Csupo Crain gallery
- This LA gallery was showing Hernandez pix till March 1998.
They must be cool-- they also have art from Moon Unit Zappa.
- Hopey Loves Shonen Knife
- Doesn't everybody love Shonen Knife?
- alt.culture
- A mini-review of Love & Rockets.
- Los Hernandez Bros
- A entry on Los Bros put up by a Dutch comics shop.
- Glamazonia
- An introduction to L&R in an Italian on-line comix mag. By Fulvio
Morlacchini.
- John's Book Pages
- Short reviews of various L&R books.
-
Alternativ kultúra: Hernandez testvérek
- Something about Los Bros in Hungarian, from which we learn that Maggie
is biszexualis and Hopey is leszbikus.
- Prosolar Mechanics
- Not much about L&R here (tho' there is a scan of Rand Race), but this band takes its name from the comic.
Some other interesting comics-related links:
-
Bob's Comics Reviews
- My reviews of various comics. And why not check out my own comic, Fuschia Chang?
-
The How-To Guide to Comics
- Surely by now you want to create comics? Tips and advice
on everything from what tools to use to how to self-publish.
-
The Comics Journal Home Page
- Excerpts from the magazine, mostly an attempt to get you to
buy it of course, but so far it's contained some interesting stuff.
Dead links
Just in case they ever come back...
- Love
& Rockets Review & Primer
- What the heck is Love & Rockets anyway? Find out here.
- Love
& Rockets Family Trees
- John McCoy's family trees of Maggie, Hopey, and Izzy; plus those of
Luba, Heraclio, Pipo, and other characters from
Gilbert's Palomar stories.
- Selina Francis's Comix Zone
- A guided tour, with plenty of gorgeous scans, of some of the feisty heroines
in alternative comics, including Los Bros'.
Possible future venue?
- Locas Land
- Elsewhere on the same site, a page about Jaime's world, with plenty of
big scans, and brief introductions to the characters.
- Dispatches.org
- An academic look at L&R, from Tamara Ja.
- The Hernandez Brothers on Punk Rock
- Paula Gonzalez interviews Los Bros on music.
- Dan Clowes interview
- Dan mentions Los Bros at a couple points. I particularly liked Jaime's story about himself and Hopey.
- Love &
Rockets Pictures
- Alison Wight's page, with some L&R pix.
- Louise's Site for Sleep Avoiders
- A personal reaction to L&R, from Sweden, with some scans.
- Prosolar Mechanics
- A page in Swedish, defining prosolar mechanics (apparently the author's career goal) and featuring Rand Race.
- Culture Club Central
- A short review which manages to get the name of
Jaime's latest comic mixed up with a Beatles song.
- Tiina Harkki's page
- A fan page, with some L&R links.
