Love and Rockets (comics)

Love and Rockets
Cover illustration by Gilbert Hernandez for Love and Rockets #16, depicting two of his major Palomar characters, Heraclio and Carmen.
Publication information
PublisherFantagraphics
Scheduleirregular
FormatOngoing series
Publication date
  • Vol. 1: September 1982 – April 1996
  • Vol. 2: 2001–2007
  • Vol. 3: 2008–2016
  • Vol. 4: 2016–present
No. of issues
  • Vol. 1: 50
  • Vol. 2: 20
  • Vol. 3: 8
  • Vol. 4: 15
Creative team
Created by

Love and Rockets (often abbreviated L&R) is a comic book series by the Hernandez brothers: Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario. It was one of the first comic books in the alternative comics movement of the 1980s.[1]

The Hernandez brothers produce stories in the series independently of each other. Gilbert and Jaime produce the majority of the material, and tend to focus on particular casts of characters and settings. Those of Gilbert usually focus on a cast of characters in the fictional Central American village of Palomar; the stories often feature magic realist elements. The Locas stories of Jaime center on a social group in Los Angeles, particularly the Latin-American friends and sometime-lovers Maggie and Hopey.

  1. ^ Pierce, Leonard (July 23, 2009). "Love and Rockets". AV Club. Retrieved June 30, 2018.