![]() ![]() Their elder brother, Mario, introduced his younger siblings to comics and contributed to “Love & Rockets” for the first 7 or 8 years before the demands of raising a family led him to stop, while another brother helped bankroll the first issue.ĭespite developing their own distinctive black and white artwork, which was influential on the alternative comics movement, the brothers happily discuss the effect that “Dennis the Menace” and “Little Archie” comics had on their work.įoglio says their background is part of what kept them down-to-earth and devoted to the work. The brothers grew up in Oxnard with parents who supported their interest in comics as did their siblings. ![]() ![]() (Photo from Clay Geerdes Collection, courtesy of Dave Miller and Fantagraphics Books) Brothers Gilbert, Jaime and Mario Hernandez, creators of the alternative comic “Love and Rockets,” at the 1984 San Diego Comic-Con. The film, which includes among its interviewees Fantagraphics founder and president Gary Groth, scholar Esther Claudio Moreno and photographer Carol Kovinick Hernandez, who is married to Gilbert and was there at the beginning taking photographs. “I mean, for me, it’s the best comic book. “It’s been my best excuse to read ‘Love and Rockets’ and nothing else all this year,” says Foglio, who first encountered the comics in the 1990s and had been wanting to get back into them. ![]() Not only does the film offer a brisk overview of the duo’s work – and makes the case for the overall importance of their creative output – it provides glimpses into their shared love of LA’s early punk rock scene, their creative inspirations and their unique working styles. “We did the work and we kept doing the work,” Jaime Hernandez told my colleague Peter Larsen at Comic-Con this summer. ![]()
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