![]() ![]() ![]() dive bars, into superheroes, romance serials and thrillers to arrive at an eventually genre-free total naturalism rarely seen in comics and never done as well as this. It moves through an early beguiling mix of science fictional rocket ships, dinosaurs and robots alternating with female wrestling and punk gigs in L.A. Locas tracks her life from her teenage punk 1980s to her forty-something 2000s, and her on-again, off-again love affair with the always enigmatic and unpredictable Hopey Glass. Jaime wrote and drew stories about a variety of protagonists but his main focus was and is Maggie Chascarillo, a complicated but open-hearted Mexican-American woman living in a suburb of Los Angeles, California and immersed in several overlapping subcultures. Stories from Jaime Hernandez and his brother Gilbert alternated and intermingled in L&R to form a powerfully idiosyncratic world, rejecting a lot of what was current in the American comics scene and going their own way. ![]() Locas is a massive 700 page slab of a book, assembling in one big hardcover volume the strips that appeared in ten or twenty-page chunks dispersed through two decades and fifty-plus issues of the magazine Love and Rockets. ![]()
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