From Fantagraphics: "Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 reboots the beloved ongoing "Love and Rockets" comic into a fat, all-new annual graphic novel length package. Jaime launches the new format with a story that's unusual even for him... A full-on, pulse-pounding super-hero yarn! Maggie's longtime friend Penny Century has finally realized her longtime dream of acquiring super-powers, but at a terrible personal cost. Now she rampages through the galaxy, half mad with grief, and a motley group of super-heroes assembles to try to stop her -- led by Maggie's girlfriend Angel and her mysterious neighbor Alarma, and involving a number of characters longtime Love and Rockets fans will delight in recognizing. The epic-length 50-page story (only the first half of the saga!) combines Jaime's razor sharp characterization and superlative art with wildly inventive, Kirby-style slam-bang super-hero action. Then Gilbert Hernandez explodes with a similarly generous helping of his fantastically creative one-shot short stories: "Tamanny" (rookie cop vs. demonic drug users); "Papa" (a turn-of-the-century story involving a traveling businessman); "The New Adventures of Duke and Sammy" (super-powered Martin and Lewis impostors in outer space); "The Tender Room" (Into the Wild as re-imagined by Beto); "Chiro el Indio" (written by third brother Mario Hernandez); and "Never Say Never" (a kangaroo gets lucky in Las Vegas). One hundred pages of Jaime, Gilbert and Mario Hernandez at the peak of their powers: this is a major graphic-novel event!"

The Hernandez Brothers are back with the second eye-popping volume of Love and Rockets: New Stories, your annual 100-page dollop of all-new L&R material.

In the concluding 50-page half of Jaime’s outrageous, acclaimed, full-on superhero mash-up "Ti-Girls Adventures", our protagonist, rookie do-gooder Boot Angel, learns more hard lessons about becoming a superheroine. Eventually, just about the entire cast gets together in a big family reunion that unexpectedly takes place in Maggie’s tiny, messy one-bedroom apartment.

Sandwiched between the concluding chapters of Jaime's story, Gilbert turns in two mind-benders of his own. “Hypnotwist” is Gilbert’s 39-page epic story of a beautiful, leggy redhead’s surreal journey into a night filled with mysterious shady characters, dreamlike violence, and sparkling retro spike heels. But is it real, or something else? For readers trying to parse the truth, Gilbert ups the ante by telling the whole story without using a single word. And "Sad Girl" (previewed in our 2009 Free Comic Book Day offering) is the tale of a disaffected young bombshell actress nicknamed "Killer" and the web of jealousy, gossip, notoriety and mystery that surrounds her.

With Love and Rockets: New Stories #3 (Fantagraphics, 2010), Jaime Hernandez returned to his beloved 'Loca', Maggie, after a three-year hiatus, resulting in two brand new storylines. Love and Rockets: New Stories #4 picks up both of these storylines, first with the conclusion to 'Love Bunglers' (did Maggie really dump Ray again?), then with a sequel of sorts to 'Browntown', in which teenage Maggie returns to Hoppers and a new life.

This second omnibus volume of "Locas" tales by Jaime Hernandez - collecting over a dozen years' worth of stories from the award-winning Love and Rockets comics - picks up shortly after Maggie and Hopey's long-awaited reunion at the end of the Locas hardcover. Even though her love life remains chaotic, Hopey takes her first steps toward responsible adulthood with a real job, while divorced Maggie manages a fleabag apartment building, where she continues to wrestle with the demons of her past - especially in the stunning graphic novel-length "Ghost of Hoppers" with its hallucinatory dream finale. Ray, still in love with Maggie, hangs out with the bombshell "Frogmouth," whose ties to local thugs causes trouble. Of course, Maggie, Hopey and Ray's paths continue to intersect in Jaime's increasingly complex, always richly imagined world, along with those of characters both old (Izzy Ortiz, Penny Century) and new (the jockette Angel, the mysterious superheroine Alarma).

by Jaime Hernandez
A standalone graphic novel from the Locas universe! It starts with a barely-glimpsed slaying ("Life Through Whispers") and ends with a funeral ("Male Torso Found in L.A. River"). Even though - or perhaps because - he's still carrying the torch for Maggie, Ray diligently pursues the dangerous and annoying "Frogmouth," aspiring actress and full-time train wreck, from seedy bars and back alleys through comic book conventions, all the way to the ultimate, and unexpected, consummation. Meanwhile, Hopey spends an eventful week during which she undergoes a couple of major life changes, both personal and professional - and for that matter cosmetic.

Jaime Hernandez
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, Maggie’s weirdo mentor Izzy as well as the wrestler Rena Titanon and Maggie’s handsome love interest, Rand Race... “Maggie the Mechanic” collects the earliest, punkiest, most heavily sci-fi stories of Maggie and her circle of friends, and you can see the artist (who drew like an angel from the very first panel) refine his approach: Despite these strong shifts in tone, the stunning art and razor sharp characterizations keep this collection consistent, and enthralling throughout. (Note: A number of these stories were not collected in the hardcover Locas.)
272-page B&W 7 1/2" x 9 1/4"

by Gilbert Hernandez
Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2007, Love and Rockets will finally be released in its most accessible form yet: As a series of compact, thick, affordable, mass-market volumes that present the whole story in perfect chronological order. This volume will collect the first half of Gilbert Hernandez’s acclaimed magical-realist tales of 'Palomar', the small Central American town, beginning with the groundbreaking 'Sopa de Gran Pena' (which introduces most of his main cast of characters as children, plus the imposing newcomer Luba), and continuing on through such modern-day classics as 'Ecce Homo', 'Act of Contrition', 'Duck Feet', and the great love story 'For the Love of Carmen'.
288-page B&W 7 1/2" x 9 1/4"

"The Second Volume of ""Palomar"" Stories from Love & Rockets"
Author: Gilbert Hernandez
Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2007, the iconic Love & Rockets comic-book series is finanlly released in affordable and comprehensive format: a series of compact, thick and inexpensive volumes that present the whole story in perfect chronological order. This volume collects the second half of Gilbert Hernandezs acclaimed magical-realist tales of Palomar, the Central American town, beginning with the landmark human Diastrophism, named one of the greatest comic book of the 20th century by The Comics Journal and continuing through modern-day classics.

- "The Second Volume of ""Locas"" Stories from Love & Rockets"
Author: Jaime Hernadez
The 25th anniversary of Love & Rockets continues with the second of three volumes collecting the adventures of the spunky Maggie, her annoying best friend and sometime lover Hopey and their circle of friends. Having abandoned the sci-fi trappings of the earliest Love & Rockets stories, Hernandez refined his approach, settling on the more naturalistic environment of the fictional Los Angeles barrio, Hoppers, and the lives of the young Mexican-Americans and punk rockers who live there....

by Gilbert Hernandez
Beyond Palomar collected two of Hernandez's ground-breaking works about the Central American village in a single affordable book. "Poison River" traces the pre-Palomar childhood of Luba, her teenage marriage to gangster Peter Rio, the secrets behind her mysterious mother, all the way up to her eventual escape and arrival in Palomar. "Love and Rockets X" takes us from Beverly Hills to the dangerous east side and introduces us to a diverse cast of characters, including a lowlife rock 'n' roll band, a posse of black youths, a ditzy Hollywood mom and her spoiled son, a gay activist filmmaker and his rebellious, half-Iraqi daughter, and a group of racist thugs that set the story in motion.

by Jaime Hernandez
Maggie, Hopey, and the rest of the Locas prowl Los Angeles, the East Coast, and parts in between trying to recapture their carefree youth. Split up from Hopey yet again, Maggie bounces back and forth between a one-laundromat town in Texas where she contends with both her inner demons and a murderous prostitute, and Camp Vicki where she must fend off her Aunt Vicki's attempt to make her a professional wrestler and the unwanted advances of the amorous wrestler Gina. And what's this about Maggie getting married?

by Los Bros Hernandez
The Love & Rockets library continues with this special volume! Amor y Cohetes is the seventh volume in the new Complete Love & Rockets series, collecting together in one convenient package all the non-Maggie and non-Palomar stories by all three Hernandez Brothers from that classic first, 50-issue Love & Rockets series, including Gilbert's original 40-page sci-fi epic "BEM" from 1981's very first issue of Love & Rockets, Jaime's charming "Rocky and Fumble" series starring a planet-hopping girl and her robot, stunning one-shots such as Gilbert's Frida Kahlo biography "Frida," the shocking autobiographical fantasia "My Love Book," and much more!

Writer/Artist: Jaime Hernandez. In his newest collection of short stories, Jaime Hernandez's cast of characters flirt and fight, confront cruelties, resign themselves to dashed hopes, shattered illusions, even death as they embrace the cockeyed absurdity of life. Reprints: PENNY CENTURY #5-7 and LOVE AND ROCKETS VOL II #4-5

Writer/Artist:Jaime Hernandez
Reprints: Whoa, Nellie! #1-3
See the most lovingly drawn women wrestling action in comics history!
Watch best friends Xo and Gina fulfill their lifelong dream of becoming a top wrestling tag-team!
Find out what happens when Xo and Gina decide to throw friendship aside and fight each other for the coveted over-the-top-rope battle royale Texas title!
All in Jaime Hernandez's first post-Love & Rockets series, Whoa, Nellie!, the exuberant story of two friends and their mentor on the pro wrestling circuit! What starts out as a light-hearted romp leads our two heroines, Xo and Gina, to a life-affirming but hard-earned lesson in life - illusions lost but their priorities regained! Includes six new pages drawn especially for the graphic novel, and a gallery of pin-ups.

Writer/Artist:Gilbert Hernandez
Reprints: New Love #1-6, Goody Good
Be afraid. Be very afraid. After Love and Rockets magazine came to a temporary end in 1996, Gilbert Hernandez plunged anew into uncharted waters with New Love, a series of freewheeling, thought-provoking, surreal, dadesque, wildly experimental comics. Fear of Comics is the eagerly anticipated compilation of those stories, augmented with a number of similarly outrageous strips from Hate, Goody Good, and elsewhere. From space aliens to Frida Kahlo's home life, from little-known saints to urban violence, from dystopian science fiction to an homage to Herge's clear line disguised as a documentary about the iron lung, with witty meditations on love, sex, and death in between, Fear of Comics is a tribute to Gilbert Hernandez's dazzling stylistic virtuosity and the inexhaustible limits of the cartoonist's art.

Writer/Artist:Gilbert Hernandez
Luba in America is the first volume of a trilogy starring Gilbert Hernandez's most recognized and renowned literary creation, the larger-than-life, sexually uninhibited matriarch of the mythical Latin American village of Palomar, about whom The Nation wrote, "Certainly Luba is one of the most complex figures in recent American fiction."

by Gilbert Hernandez
“Five six. Hundred twenty-eight pounds. Forty-three twenty-two thirty-six. High soft lisp. Genius level I.Q.” That’s how motivational speaker Mark Herrera sums up Rosalba “Fritz” Martinez, bombshell, former punkette, former psychiatrist, “Z” movie star — in this supremely sexy, constantly surprising graphic novel.

And Herrera should know, being only one of many to fall under Fritz’s “lithping” spell — others including slobbish rocker Scott “The Hog” and high school nerd turned obsessive bodybuilder Enrique Escobar (and that’s just her husbands).

Hernandez has taken this suite of stories (including the 48-page graphic novelette “High Soft Lisp”), originally serialized in Luba's Comics and Stories and the second volume of Love and Rockets, and fleshed them out with a dozen brand new pages, creating an original and inventive (and very steamy) volume that, through its connections to his main character Luba (Fritz is Luba’s half sister, and characters from the Luba stories pop up here), works both as a standalone graphic novel and a further exploration of Hernandez’s rich world.

The third in Gilbert Hernandez's line of original graphic novels featuring Love and Rockets' Fritz in her guise as a Z-movie actress is a trippy thriller that stars Fritz in no fewer than three roles. A beautiful waitress (Fritz) and her nurse brother (also Fritz) visit their estranged father, a once successful but now retired writer (amazingly enough, also Fritz), in order to find out the true reason why their mother committed suicide. When dad's health fails, the siblings are then more concerned with the money he might leave them.
EXPLICIT CONTENT - OVER 18'S ONLY

By Jaime Hernandez
A collection in the style of Maggie The Mechanic. Penny Century collects the well-loved comic book series of the same title and select stories featuring Penny from Love and Rockets, as well as the long out-of-print graphic novel, Whoa Nellie! The Penny material features... Penny! The hottest super heroin of Earth and beyond! Whoa Nellie is hands down the best female wrestling comic of ALL TIME. From the master cartoonist Jaime Hernandez!

Writer:Gilbert Hernandez
Artist:Gilbert Hernandez
Luba and her cousin Ofelia are acclimating to a new life in the United States. When Ofelia decides to chronicle her life with Luba in a tell-all book, she discovers inspiration in Luba's young children--the one-armed Casimira, Socorro with the photographic memory, the loner Joselito, and the silent Conchita--who lead her into a haunted field where the disembodied voice of a crying baby opens the floodgates of memory, even memories Ofelia has spent a lifetime trying to forget.

Luba: Three Daughters is the final book in Gilbert Hernandez’s post-Palomar trilogy (following Luba In America and Luba: The Book of Ofelia), a body of work comparable in comics only to Hernandez’s own Palomar in terms of scope and ambition. It continues the story of matriarch Luba and her extended family’s travails in the United States after her Central American hometown is destroyed at the end of the Palomar. Luba: Three Daughters focuses on Luba and her two sisters, Fritz and Petra, as Hernandez continues to use his characters to explore the complex relationships that form between family and how the experiences and actions of one generation influence the next. Hernandez is renowned for his female characters. Hernandez intersperses his main narrative with “The Kid Stuff Kids,” a series of lighthearted and playful one-pagers starring the young children of the three sisters, richly juxtaposed against the complex family drama at work in Three Daughters. Hernandez’s mix of Latino soap opera, magic realist touches and rich naturalism in the service of stories that speak to the changes that come with age and experience are unparalleled in comics, and feature the most vivid, memorable and honestly depicted characters in comics.

Writer:Gilbert Hernandez
Artist:Gilbert Hernandez
NEW TALES OF OLD PALOMAR returns us to where the first Heartbreak Soup story left off. All three chapters deal with the classic characters of PALOMAR, like Pipo, her sister Carmen, sheriff Chelo, and the gang of boys who help start it all: studious Heraclio, tall and fey Isreal, disfigured but good natured Vicente, and always horny Jesus and Satch. In book one, “Children of Palomar", there are mysterious thieves stealing food from wherever they can grab it the quickest, then they're off like lightning. Sheriff Chelo and some citizens do their best to solve the mystery, but nobody seems to be able to catch the bandits in action until Pipo puts her soccer-trained legs to work and goes after them herself. We are reintroduced to the classic style of the PALOMAR stories, in which everybody in town helps one another. That is, with the exception of a person or two, who decide to ignore that tradition.

Writer:Gilbert Hernandez
Artist:Gilbert Hernandez
Gilbert Hernandez returns to that funky little Central American hamlet of his with another story set in the "Sopa de Gran Pena" days starring "The Children of Palomar" - in this case the obnoxious and picked-on Gato (whom LR fans will remember as Pipo's husband-to-be), Soledad, Guero, Pintor, and Arturo. The quintet of troublemakers' explorations across a bottomless chasm results in two of the kids coming face to face with... well, we won't spoil the surprise. But Sheriff Chelo is on the case and saves the day! With the very earliest Palomar stories recently released in a redesigned and affordable format in the Heartbreak Soup volume, these new stories of Palomar come along at the perfect time, and the superswanky Ignatz format provides Beto with a perfect canvas.

by Gilbert Hernandez
The final installment of New Tales of Old Palomar focuses on the gorgeous but troubled Tonantzin. Everyone in Palomar takes the supernatural with a grain of salt, but young Tonantzin is determined to uncover the mystery of the laughing baby that appears only to her, haunting her daily life. What is the baby's link to the giant stone idols that stand outside the town?

by Gilbert Hernandez
Gilbert Hernandez's first original graphic novel from Fantagraphics follows on the heels of his acclaimed graphic novel, Sloth, from DC's Vertigo Comics 2006. Chance in Hell tells the story about a little orphan girl who lives in the slums of the slums. Nobody knows who she is or where she's from, but her fellow shantytown inhabitants collectively look over her. The three-act story follows our heroine as she is adopted by a decent man who raises her well, and she eventually marries a kind, well-to-do man, only to discover that she can't relate to the good life and the comforts he provides.

Writer/Artist:Gilbert Hernandez
Reprints: Girl Crazy #1-3
The muscular Maribel, the flat-chested Kitten, the voluptuous Gaby, and the remarkable Una are on the verge of turning sixteen. At the prime of their lives, without any fears of excess cellulite suddenly appearing under their arms or on their hips, they pursue their own private dreams with their own personal styles and charge through "rites of passage" unlike any you've seen or read -- complete with androids, polka dots, two breast implants, one shaved werewolf, and the total destruction of an IRS branch office.

Written and art by Gilbert Hernandez.

There's a peeping tom prowling the neighborhood. Eyewitness reports vary, but one thing is agreed upon: he wears a devil mask. This is the story of Val Castillo, a promising gymnast with a strange hobby. She is secretly the neighborhood peeping tom. At first she is alone in this, but when a male friend discovers her doings he joins her into a dark journey of spying and making discoveries about their neighbors that may have been better left alone. Especially secrets that threaten all involved. Like Val spying on her own father and stepmother in their bedroom. This snowballs into a journey darker than even the most cynical would care to endure. Collects the six-issue miniseries.

When Gilbert Hernandez cliamxed his award-winning Palomar series at the end of Love and Rockets' original run by levelling the tiny Central American town, many disappointed readers thought he had written off the beloved characters for good. Not so - Hernandez here picks up the story of Luba, the hammer-wielding matriarch who now finds herself in the USA, where she continues to contend not only, as an immigrant, with a new and less than welcoming culture but also her tempestuous extended family. Tales of sex, violence and rock and roll.
This volume collects stories which originally appeared in the comics series Measles, Luba and Luba's Comics and Stories and were previously collected in the softcover collections Luba in America, Luba: The Book of Ofelia, and Luba: Three Daughters; the final chapter, from Love and Rockets Vol. II #20, is previously uncollected.
hardcover, 608 pages