Is This How You See Me?: A Locas Story (Love and Rockets)

Is This How You See Me?: A Locas Story (Love and Rockets)

Jaime Hernandez
$19.99
Publication Date: April 2nd, 2019
Publisher:
Fantagraphics
ISBN:
9781683961826
Pages:
96
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Description

In the follow-up to the LA Book Prize-winning The Love Bunglers, the Locas get the band back together—literally.

Maggie and Hopey leave their significant others at home and take a weekend road trip to go to a punk scene reunion in their old neighborhood. Threaded throughout are flashbacks to 1979, during the formative stages in their lifelong relationship, as the perceived invincibility of youth is juxtaposed against all of the love, heartbreak, and self-awareness that comes with lives actually lived. Serialized over the past four years in Love and Rockets: New Stories and the new comic book series, Is This How You See Me? collects Hernandez’s unsentimental, long-form masterpiece together for the first time.

About the Author

Jaime Hernandez was one of six siblings born and raised in Oxnard, California. His mother passed down a love of comics, which for Jaime became a passion rivaled only by his interest in the burgeoning punk rock scene of 1970s Southern California. Together with his brothers Gilbert and Mario, Jaime co-created the ongoing comic book series Love and Rockets in 1981, which Gilbert and Jaime continue to both write and draw to this day. Jaime’s work began as a perfect (if unlikely) synthesis of the anarchistic, do-it-yourself aesthetic of the punk scene and an elegant cartooning style that recalled masters such as Charles M. Schulz and Alex Toth. Love and Rockets has evolved into one of the great bodies of American literary fiction, spanning five decades and countless high-water marks in the medium’s history. In 2016, Hernandez won the prestigious Los Angeles Times Book Prize for his graphic novel, The Love Bunglers. In 2017, he (along with Gilbert) was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame, and, in 2018, he released his first children’s book, the Aesop Book Prize-winning The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America. He is a lifelong Angeleno.

Praise for Is This How You See Me?: A Locas Story (Love and Rockets)

Love and Rockets [is] the rare pop cultural artifact that renders Latinas not as archetypes, but as rich and profound human beings full of messy contradiction and ambivalence.

— LA Times

A poignant reintroduction to two beloved characters and their long-standing relationship.
— The New Yorker

This is an aching graphic novel about regret and growing older, and the ability — or inability — to confront the past.
— The New York Times

Love and Rockets has created a community of misfits filled with as much anger as warmth, with as many mistakes as wisdom, and with as much sadness as joy. That full spectrum is embodied most beautifully in [protagonists] Maggie and Hopey, and Is This How You See Me? reinforces it perfectly.

— PopMatters

While longtime fans will discover extra levels of joy and regret in this installment, even those who pick this up as their introduction to the series will be moved by its tale of growing older without necessarily growing up.
— Publishers Weekly

This book is full of innocence and experience, punk haircuts, middle-aged moshing, old movies, cigarettes and bruised hearts, all sketched out in black and white pen lines that throb with emotion and desire and anger and pain and resignation and acceptance.
— Herald Scotland

Hernandez is beloved by fans for creating complex, strong women who drive the narratives of his 'Locas' stories. Is This How You See Me? is an ideal 'Locas' entry point.

— Chicago Tribune

A moving story about the lives of two longtime friends.
— The Guardian

A must-read for even the most casual Love and Rockets fan.

— Toronto Star

A new volume of Love and Rockets, the best American comic book series of all time, is always good news.

— Austin-American Statesman

Another transcendent contribution to the Love and Rockets canon.

— Arkansas Democrat Gazette

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