Maggie the Mechanic (Love & Rockets)

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The 25th anniversary Love and Rockets celebration continues with this, the first of three volumes collecting the adventures of the spunky Maggie, her annoying best friend and sometimes lover Hopey, and their circle of friends, including their bombshell friend Penny Century. This book collects the earliest, punkiest, most heavily sci-fi stories.

From the Publisher

In 1982, Fantagraphics Books published the first issue of Love and Rockets by the Hernandez brothers (Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario), and the series has since gone on to become the publisher’s flagship title, a monumental work of graphic fiction. Collected under the umbrella of L&R, the series is comprised of two separate ongoing stories: Gilbert chronicles the colorful inhabitants of the fictional Latin American town of Palomar, while Jaime follows Latinx friends and sometime lovers Maggie and Hopey and their circle of friends in the punk scene of the fictional Californian town Hoppers. Over the course of L&R’s multi-decade run, its characters have aged in real time, lending these stories a depth and weight that few literary works achieve. The Hernandez brothers continue to release new issues of Love and Rockets.

Fantagraphics marks the 40th anniversary of this landmark comic book series in 2022 — The Complete Love and Rockets Library collects L&R in affordable paperback editions. Love and Rockets: The First Fifty is an 8-volume box set presenting bound facsimiles of the original fifty issues of the Love and Rockets comics magazines including every cover, comics page, and letter column (even advertising!) with selected essays, reviews, and profiles that appeared in the popular (and unpopular) press between 1982 and 1996, along with over 100 pages of additional, rarely-seen comics from the period by all three Brothers, plus dozens of book and magazine covers — a virtual history of the growth of Love and Rockets and the simultaneous rise of the literary comics movement of which they were exemplars and trailblazers. This is essential reading for all alternative comics fans.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fantagraphics Books; First Edition (September 19, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1560977841
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1560977841
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.45 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1 x 9 inches