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The Girl from H.O.P.P.E.R.S.: A Love and Rockets Book

The Girl from H.O.P.P.E.R.S.: A Love and Rockets Book

Hernandez, Jaime

Paperback

Series: The Complete Love and Rockets Library, Book 4

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Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 1560978511
ISBN13: 9781560978510
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: Jul 1 2007
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.50
Height: 0.84 Width: 7.62 Depth: 9.18
Language: English
In The Girl from H.O.P.P.E.R.S., Hernandez refined his artistic storytelling approach, settling into the more naturalistic environment of a fictional Los Angeles neighborhood, Hoppers, and the lives of the people who live there. In stories like The Death of Speedy, such is Jaime's mastery that even though the title telegraphs the end of the story, the downhill spiral of Speedy, the local heartthrob, is utterly compelling and ultimately shocking. Also in this volume, Maggie begins her on-again off-again romance with Ray D., leading to friction and an eventual separation from Hopey. This volume is the third in a comprehensive and chronological series, The Complete Love and Rockets Library, and the second that collects all of writer-artist Jaime Hernandez's Locas storyline in which characters change as they age in real-time.

These stories, created between 1985-1991, first appeared in the long-running (and ongoing) Love and Rockets comics series, also featuring work by Jaime's brothers, Gilbert and Mario. L&R has been called the greatest American comic book series of all time by Rolling Stone and a great, sprawling American novel by GQ. It broke ground with its craft and the casual intersectionality of its huge and diverse casts of nuanced characters (many of whom are LGBQTIA+) who live and have relationships in often-naturalistic settings and situations. (Although L&R has SF and magical realist elements too). Along with contemporaries Chris Ware, Lynda Barry, and Daniel Clowes, the Hernandez brothers pushed the comics medium into new artistic heights.

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