I got a cheap bootleg of that tee off Redbubble as postage for the Fanta one to the UK was like $50. It's p bad, all the audience are peeling off, but I wore it to a comics convention I took my daughter to last weekend and I got many compliments (and everyone asked if it was vintage, and I replied, 'No, it's just shit')
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Friday, 18 November 2022 09:52 (one year ago) link
and here’s the creator / star of This Fool interviewing all three Brothers last month:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNuf67jzL4s
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Friday, 18 November 2022 15:45 (one year ago) link
love that #24 shirt, incredibly iconic image. that said I'm wondering it's too obvious to wear or should I just say fuck it
― Nhex, Friday, 18 November 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
xp Thanks, sic – will check that out.
Yeah, I'm not traditionally a big wearer of shirts w/indicia... but lately (maybe as a "getting older" thing), I've been into the idea... searching online for band T-shirts and stuff. (Pretty sure this is my actual shirt that was stolen from a college dorm locker room c. 1994, lol)
― "Mick Wall at Kerrang!" (morrisp), Friday, 18 November 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link
i own and wear the #24 shirt on the regular
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 November 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link
"This Fool" is pretty great btw
I also have a version of that shirt that I wear all the time
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 18 November 2022 19:56 (one year ago) link
New York Times 40th anniversary profile:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/books/love-and-rockets-hernandez-bros.html
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/11/10/books/00Hernandezbrothers-topart/00Hernandezbrothers-topart-superJumbo.jpg
...and the First Fifty box is $80 off plus free US shipping today
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Sunday, 20 November 2022 19:49 (one year ago) link
The cartoonist Adrian Tomine discovered the series in 1987, after reading “Death of Speedy Ortiz,” a story by Jaime about a Hoppers local who becomes embroiled in a gang war. “I thought it was the greatest comic I’d ever seen,” he said.Me too!
― "Mick Wall at Kerrang!" (morrisp), Sunday, 20 November 2022 22:24 (one year ago) link
(well, actually a few years later, when I came across Vol. 7 of the collections)
― "Mick Wall at Kerrang!" (morrisp), Sunday, 20 November 2022 22:28 (one year ago) link
I'd love to have that box but I have almost all of the first 50 in floppies, not sure I can justify it for the last volume.
― DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Monday, 21 November 2022 01:21 (one year ago) link
i feel like i have the first volume in like three different formats already but i wouldn't turn down that box set if anyone wants to get it for me
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Monday, 21 November 2022 01:53 (one year ago) link
It’s nice to see L&R get this round of 40th Anniversary props. If they do pack it in after another 10 years (as they say in that article), I’m sure there’ll be more of the same… then probably a movie, five years later.
― "Mick Wall at Kerrang!" (morrisp), Monday, 21 November 2022 05:12 (one year ago) link
Sale on the box is over, but 40% off just about every other L&R book, magazine or floppy today only
(same goes for any Fanta author)
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Monday, 21 November 2022 17:41 (one year ago) link
Just bought some Peanutz
― "Mick Wall at Kerrang!" (morrisp), Monday, 21 November 2022 17:43 (one year ago) link
ooh thx
― sleeve, Monday, 21 November 2022 17:44 (one year ago) link
finally got the new woodring
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Monday, 21 November 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
A third sale: 20% off all pre-orders today, which includes the next digest/Library collection (the first in five years!), the next Psychodrama Illustrated, and a Fritz b-movie triple-feature.
― more crankable (sic), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 02:38 (one year ago) link
Now this I like: https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/love-and-rockets-tote-bag
― "Mick Wall at Kerrang!" (morrisp), Friday, 2 December 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
Fantabucks sale in two weeks: plan accordingly
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Thursday, 9 March 2023 18:13 (one year ago) link
Enjoyed the Kayfabe interview with Gilbert, it was funny when he said there was a period when he used to read Alter Ego to wash away a reliably depressing issue of Comics Journal.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 6 November 2023 18:45 (ten months ago) link
Sorry this is random, but when I saw this great rendering of the "Luma" character in profile, I thought – "wow, that's pure Jaime":
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/492/064/429/156/895/original/eef14dfe3115e58c.png
(Idk who specifically penciled it; this page says "Cover Artists: Curt Swan • George Klein • Ira Schnapp)
― This field is required (morrisp), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 18:24 (nine months ago) link
my copy credits Curt Swan and George Klein; would guess Swan was the penciller
― famous instagram dog (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 19:08 (nine months ago) link
Schnapp is the letterer
― bae (sic), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:30 (nine months ago) link
A new “scholarly book” is coming: https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/reading-love-and-rockets
― atmospheric river phoenix (morrisp), Saturday, 17 February 2024 00:24 (seven months ago) link
Also coming, and enormous: https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/love-and-rockets-the-sketchbooks
― bae (sic), Saturday, 17 February 2024 02:46 (seven months ago) link
time to pick up the above, or the First Fifty, or hundreds of other books for sorta-half-price
― bae (sic), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 23:35 (six months ago) link
^ eight hours left
― bae (sic), Sunday, 24 March 2024 22:47 (six months ago) link
I did not know (or forgot?) that Jaime drew Shrinking Violet & Phantom Girl for DC's Who's Who in the mid-'80s (as seen at the end of this piece) – very cool!:
https://www.cbr.com/jaime-hernandez-dc-superheroes-1980s/
Meanwhile, though – if that article (which I found while searching for those images) is correct that this Maggie "pin-up" was the actual inspiration for Carrie Kelley, DKR's Robin... that is **VERY** F-N' COOL(!!):
https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/jaime-hernandez-maggie-as-robin.jpg?q=50&fit=crop&w=750&dpr=1.5
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Monday, 22 April 2024 20:18 (five months ago) link
I remember that sketch! <3
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Monday, 22 April 2024 20:19 (five months ago) link
You can be reminded of it again tomorrow!
― bae (sic), Monday, 22 April 2024 21:10 (five months ago) link
pretty sure I have it, I have the two sketchbook volumes?
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Monday, 22 April 2024 21:12 (five months ago) link
(There is a LOT more in the new one, and most of it from improved sources, including Jaime’s original sketchbooks)
― bae (sic), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 15:15 (five months ago) link
https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/love-rockets-vol-iv-16weird ass cover
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 4 September 2024 21:51 (three weeks ago) link
that *is* a weird ass cover
it was such a pleasure reading through one of the big editions recently, that going back to the smaller-sized collections feels like real stepdown
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 5 September 2024 10:28 (three weeks ago) link