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Locas: A Love and Rockets Book (Love and Rockets Books) (Hardcover)

by Jaime Hernandez (Author) "SURPRISE! IT'S ME! ..." (more)

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Hardcover: 712 pages
Publisher: Fantagraphics; illustrated edition edition (1 Sep 2004)
Language English
ISBN-10: 156097611X
ISBN-13: 978-1560976110
Product Dimensions: 28.2 x 22.6 x 4.6 cm

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 331,274 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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One of the most imaginative artists in American popular culture, Jaime Hernandez has sold over 1.5 million comic books since 1982. Locas is the story of Maggie, a bisexual Mexican-American woman coming of age during the 1980s Southern California rock scene, when the anarchic world of punk and new wave emerged. Hernandez's naturalistic storytelling and mastery of body language and facial expression, as well as his brilliant depiction of barrio life with its class and racial tensions, make Locas one of the great American novels of the last 25 years, graphic or otherwise.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, 27 Jul 2006

By	Neil S. Reddy "N" (England) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you missed out on LA 80's punk scene as most of us did - then you can capture a taste here but its about being young, wild, dazed, confused and when friends really were everything...plus rock and roll, crazy super heros and of course Maggie and Hopey the greatest female characters is the entire comic-verse.

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5.0 out of 5 stars addictive, 4 Feb 2009

By	I. Buckley "mopple" (uk) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Very addictive fun read!! With an insight into life over there..Quite gritty .. But i loved Maggie she is adorable!!
Takes you someplace else entirely... where everything is just insane
very readable and puts you in a good mood fo rthe rest of the day!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Does not come better, 12 Aug 2009

By	David Hampson "kuma" (Reading, Berkshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Maggie and Hopey are some of my best friends from my later formative years and it is great to get this big collection of their adventures up to a point where I lost track of them, rather like they do half way through the book - strangely too it is a band responsible, Hopey goes off on tour and leaves Maggie behind, and Jaime Hernandez "quit" comics to become a less successful rock star along with his brother Beto who writes the other half of Love and Rockets.
Viewing it all over a big Moby Dick sized volume lends it all a new quality than sporadically finding a new issue every few months and the themes and the characters really come into their own - things like Maggie's relationships with her wrestler Aunt and precocious half-sister, events in Maggie and Hopey's past which shaped their characters.
You can't go wrong with this book, it is one of the great work's of literature of the 20th century and I can't imagine anyone not being deeply moved by this book.

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I just re-read this having collected the original Love&Rockets comic books all those years ago. It's amazing that it doesn't seem to have aged a bit and is still is as... Read more

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