Love and Rockets X
| Love and Rockets X | |
|---|---|
| Creator | Gilbert Hernandez |
| Date | 1993 |
| Publisher | Fantagraphics |
| Original publication | |
| Published in | Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics) |
| Issues | 31–39 |
| Date of publication | 1989–1993 |
Love and Rockets X is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Gilbert Hernandez. Its serialization ran in the comic book Love and Rockets Vol. 1 #31–39 from 1989 to 1992, and the first collected edition appeared in 1994.
The story crosses the paths of characters from various social and ethnic groups in Los Angeles.[1] Central is a garage rock band that calls itself Love and Rockets.[2] The story has none of the magic realist elements Hernandez employed in the Palomar stories he was best known for.[3]
Hernandez uses marginal notes to explain non-English vocabulary the book's various ethnic characters use, and typographical marks such as angle brackets to mark off non-English speech translated into English, such as from Spanish or Arabic.[4] The straightforward chronology and easily distinguished characters marked a contrast to those of Poison River, another, more complicated graphic novel Hernandez was serializing in Love and Rockets at the same time.[5] At the same time Hernandez's brother Jaime was running the eight-part Wig Wam Bam[6]
Publication
The serialization ran in the comic book Love and Rockets Vol. 1 #31–39 from December 1989 to August 1992. It first appeared collected in the tenth volume of the Complete Love and Rockets in 1994. In 2007 it appeared in the Beyond Palomar volume of The Love and Rockets Library with Poison River.[7]
References
- ↑ Fiore 1997, p. 70.
- ↑ Royal 2013a.
- ↑ Neill 2013.
- ↑ Aldama 2012, p. 90.
- ↑ Rubenstein 1994, p. 48.
- ↑ Hatfield 2005, p. 102.
- ↑ Royal 2013b.
Works cited
- Aldama, Frederick Luis (2012). Your Brain on Latino Comics: From Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-74991-7 – via Project MUSE. (subscription required (help)).
- Fiore, R. (December 1997). Groth, Gary, ed. "A Nice German Trench". The Comics Journal. Fantagraphics Books (200): 67–71. ISSN 0194-7869.
- Hatfield, Charles (2005). "Gilbert Hernandez's Heartbreak Soup". Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature. University Press of Mississippi. pp. 68–107. ISBN 978-1-57806-719-0. Retrieved 2012-09-19 – via Project MUSE. (subscription required (help)).
- Neill, F. Vance (2013). "Gilbert Hernandez as a Rhetor". ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies. University of Florida. 7 (1). ISSN 1549-6732. Retrieved 2014-11-29.
- Royal, Derek Parker (2013a). "The Worlds of the Hernandez Brothers". ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies. University of Florida. 7 (1). ISSN 1549-6732. Retrieved 2014-11-29.
- Royal, Derek Parker (2013b). "Hernandez Brothers: A Selected Bibliography". ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies. University of Florida. 7 (1). ISSN 1549-6732. Retrieved 2014-11-29.
- Rubenstein, Anne (November 1994). "Difficult Pleasures: Poison River". The Comics Journal. Fantagraphics Books (172): 47–48. ISSN 0194-7869.