6/25/2023 0 Comments Locas jaime hernandezMost of the elements that make Jaime one of my favorite cartoonists are present in “Flies on the Ceiling”: The first comic by Jaime Hernandez I ever read was “Flies on the Ceiling,” which still ranks among the most astonishing comics works I’ve ever laid eyes on. I get wistful just looking at their cover fonts!)ĭespite being around Love and Rockets comics since an early age, I didn’t read any of it until much, much later, and I didn’t start at the beginning. (In one sense, that adds a layer of truth to Noah’s assertions re: nostalgia, in that the Locas stories all bring me a nostalgia for the mysterious allure they exerted on my young mind before I’d read them. Love and Rockets was an aesthetic space that existed for me in the abstract long before I ever read the comics themselves. I started ingesting Jaime’s work through osmosis when I was a little kid hanging out in the back of my father’s comic book store - images in ads, articles, seeing the covers of his books on shelves, hearing conversations about Maggie and Hopey.
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