hm ok damn now I want to re-read L&R in like original comic book/Collection form and see what it's like
― Stevie D(eux), Thursday, 14 April 2022 17:00 (two years ago) link
oh man do I have some good news for you!
― beepy fridges (sic), Thursday, 14 April 2022 17:31 (two years ago) link
This will get me chased out of this thread, but the earliest stuff is hard for me to roll with - as artists they evolved so much over the years.
I’m more of a Jaime stan and his more “cartoonish) stuff from circa 2000 forward is just magical.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 21:16 (two years ago) link
(I do read the Gilbert stories in the new issues as they come out, though from issue to issue I couldn’t summarize whatever through line plots exist if my life depended on it.)
Jaime has some odd superhero sideline serial going on which, whatever - I keep thinking that space could better serve Maggie, Ray, Tonta, Frogmouth, etc. (Hopey’s been MIA for a minute, hasn’t she?)
I did consider buying some hardbacks of recent-ish stuff at my LCS but abstained - money is tight and I have this content as single issues already. Someday!
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 21:22 (two years ago) link
Keep meaning to reread by softcover of Wigwam Bam but then remember how much that story freaks me out.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 21:25 (two years ago) link
certainly the early Jaime stories with tons of cross hatching and walls of text were on the weak side, but it was pretty amazing once he ditched the sci fi elements and started digging into the Locas storyline
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 21:28 (two years ago) link
Yeah - the sci-fi stuff did nothing for me.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 21:35 (two years ago) link
The Mechanics stories are wonderful!
― begrudgingly bound by duty of candor (morrisp), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 21:37 (two years ago) link
A new PBS doc is coming this fall: https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/love-rockets
― HIPPO violation (morrisp), Thursday, 4 August 2022 16:56 (one year ago) link
woah
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 4 August 2022 17:59 (one year ago) link
^This doc premiers tonight - 9pm on KCET in SoCal (no idea if it's national too, or what).
Two-minute preview here (looks like a lot of "flipping through pages" close-ups, but I guess that comes with the territory):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7XbhStOHjs
― Linkin Bio (morrisp), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 16:54 (one year ago) link
It’s not national broadcast, but will be available on the PBS app.
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
better they flip through than "animating" bits.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 18:07 (one year ago) link
I keep getting faked out and thinking this thread is about the band, which, fwiw: classic.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 18:09 (one year ago) link
yeah, i'll watch this
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
I refer the honorable member for Beaux to the front cover of issue #26.
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 18:34 (one year ago) link
I'm watching this right now on the PBS app
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 22:28 (one year ago) link
so this was pretty well done, but it could have easily been twice as long. I would like to have seen more about Gilbert and Palomar, and just more about some of their most famous storylines over the years
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 23:28 (one year ago) link
Definitely could have been longer! Felt kinda rushed. There are some cool/interesting bits… particularly the Bros going panel by panel through a few old favorites (Dennis the Menace and Little Archie). It’s also fun watching Jaime draw & ink.
― Linkin Bio (morrisp), Thursday, 6 October 2022 06:24 (one year ago) link
I haven't watched this yet, but I just noticed it's on YouTube on KCET's channel here.
― ernestp, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 02:51 (one year ago) link
Amazing! Thank you ernest
― politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 07:41 (one year ago) link
Thank you!
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 11:06 (one year ago) link
It can be watched at the PBS website also.
― Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 13:09 (one year ago) link
This YouTube link works for all us non-Americans, tho!
― politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 14:20 (one year ago) link
thanks for that link!
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 October 2022 05:40 (one year ago) link
I don’t like this writer, but in case of interest…
https://www.gq.com/story/love-and-rockets-hernandez-brothers
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 17:06 (one year ago) link
Gosh, it manages to work “Comics Aren’t Just for Kids Anymore,” Watchmen, and TDKR into the opening paragraph…
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 17:22 (one year ago) link
In Ep. 5 of Hulu sitcom This Fool, the main character wears an L&R #24 T-shirt. (I see Fanta has it in stock… maybe I’ll try to pick it up for myself in their Black Friday sale)
― "Mick Wall at Kerrang!" (morrisp), Friday, 18 November 2022 05:02 (one year ago) link
there's also a L&R #29 shirt! (with L&R40 logo...)
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Friday, 18 November 2022 07:35 (one year ago) link
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 (five months ago) link