Jaime Hernandez Bücher

Ein trostloser Vorort, flimmernde Luft, lähmende Langeweile. Hier verbringen Margarita „Maggie“ Chascarillo und Esperanza „Hopey“ Glass eine Jugend zwischen Punkrockpartys, Selbstzweifeln und Gelegenheitsjobs. Als Maggies Schwarm, „Speedy“ Ortiz, in der Auseinandersetzung zweier rivalisierender Jugendgangs einen sinnlosen und traurigen Tod stirbt, wird der Mikrokosmos der jungen Frauen erstmals in den Grundfesten erschüttert... Jaime Hernandez' „Der Tod von Speedy“ hat dem Comic in den Achtzigerjahren wegweisende Impulse verliehen: Mit entwaffnendem Einfühlungsvermögen und exakter Beobachtungsgabe thematisiert der Zeichner die Lebenswirklichkeit von Jugendlichen in den Suburbs von Los Angeles. Covergestaltung: Arne Bellstorf

Bereits seit mehr als drei Jahrzehnten begleitet Jaime Hernandez das Leben seiner Protagonistin Maggie Chascarillo. Ähnlich Harry Angstrom in John Updikes „Rabbit“-Romanen wuchs Maggie gemeinsam mit ihren Lesern heran. Heute ist sie Mitte Vierzig und alle Pfade, die sie betreten hat, sämtliche Entscheidungen, die sie traf, kulminieren in „Liebe und Versagen“. Wie ein Kaleidoskop führt das Buch Schicksalsschläge, Familiengeheimnisse und Wendepunkte in Maggies Leben zusammen und erzählt eine berührende Geschichte über Erinnerungen und ihre Last auf unserer Gegenwart. Jamie Hernandez gelingt mit „Liebe und Versagen“ ein Kunstwerk – kraftvoll und echt –, das uns eindrücklich vor Augen führt, dass wir Ängste und Traurigkeit akzeptieren müssen, uns von ihnen aber nicht versehren lassen dürfen. Covergestaltung: Arne Bellstorf

This collects the stories from Vol. 3 of the Love and Rockets comic book, including the LA Times Book Prize-winning Love Bunglers, and much more. The sublime, the superpowered, and the senior citizen converge in Angels and Magpies, which collects the Gods and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls and Love Bunglers storylines from the Love and Rockets: New Stories series, as well as Hernandez’s 2006 serial for the New York Times. In the latter, Maggie pays a visit to Queen Rena, who is living out her twilight days on an island after a lifetime as a wrestler and an adventuress. In the Ti-Girls segment, superheroics get a screwball spin when Angel of Tarzana and Maggie square off against Dark Penny Century. In the "Love Bunglers," held as perhaps Hernandez’s greatest masterpiece in his thirty-five-year career, and one of the great graphic novels of all time (it was hailed by Slate and Publishers Weekly as one of the best stories of the year), the past and present converge as Maggie and Ray’s reunion is threatened by long-buried family secrets.

As Hernandez puts it, “It’s my Love and Rockets world that’s not my Love and Rockets world.” This best-of book spotlights the women who are often ignored in pro wrestling in 125 full color illustrations: pin-ups, action shots, fake wrestling magazine covers, all presented in a large paperback format that echoes the lucha libre magazines of the 1960s. Hernandez also discusses the work in an interview with fellow cartoonist Katie Skelly.Despite having created one of the most expansive and remarkable casts of characters of any cartoonist who ever lived (under the umbrella of the ongoing L comic book series), acclaimed graphic novelist Jaime Hernandez — Will Eisner Hall of Famer; Eisner, Harvey, Ignatz, and PEN Award winner; L.A. Times Book Prize winner; and on a very short list of contenders for the title of America’s Greatest Living Cartoonist — has been privately amassing a body of work that no one else has ever seen for over 40 years. Until now.

In these classic "Locas" stories, Jaime drops a narrative bomb on Hopey (and us) in "Wigwam Bam"; Maggie contends with her inner demons, a murderous hooker, and an amorous lady wrestler; and Maggie, getting married?

In this batch of “Locas” stories by Jaime Hernandez from the pages of Love and Rockets Volume II (picking up where 2010’s Penny Century collection left off), an older and wiser Maggie faces down her old demons and the “Ghost of Hoppers” in a full-length graphic novel (which also introduces one of Jaime’s greatest recent characters, Vivian the “Frogmouth,” the near-psychotic bombshell). Meanwhile, the ever-feisty but maturing Hopey (her Spanish birth name giving this collection its title) transitions from tending bar to teaching kindergarten (while still juggling a complex love life), and the final quarter of the book shows Maggie’s lovable ex Ray Dominguez being dragged into the aftermath of a grisly murder thanks to his falling for the Frogmouth.

The 25th anniversary Love and Rockets celebration continues withthis, the second of three volumes collecting the adventures of thespunky Maggie; her annoying, pixie-ish best friend and sometime loverHopey; and their circle of friends, including their bombshell friendPenny Century, Maggie's weirdo mentor Izzy—as well as the aging butstill heroic wrestler Rena Titañon and Maggie's handsome love interest,Rand Race. After the sci-fi trappings of his earliest stories (as seenin Maggie the Mechanic, the first volume in this series),Hernandez refined his approach, settling on the more naturalisticenvironment of the fictional Los Angeles barrio, Hoppers, and the livesof the young Mexican-Americans and punk rockers who live there. Acentral story and one of Jaime's absolute peaks is "The Death ofSpeedy." Such is Jaime's mastery that even though the end of the storyis telegraphed from the very title, the downhill spiral of Speedy, thelocal heartthrob, is utterly compelling and ultimately quitesurprising. Also in this volume, Maggie begins her on-again off-againromance with Ray D., leading to friction and an eventual separationfrom Hopey.(Note: A number of these stories, including a whole cycleof wrestling stories starring or co-starring Rena Titañon, were notcollected in the hardcover Locas.)

Follows the adventures of the spunky Maggie Chascarillo, her annoying friend and sometime lover Hopey and their circle of friends, including bombshell Penny Century, weirdo Izzy and her gangster broher Speedy, would-be boyfriend Ray Dominguez, Hopey's no-talent punk band and wrestlers Vicki Glori and Rena Titanon.