Love And Rockets Vol 2 # 11
By LJ Douresseau
January 18, 2005 - 15:29
Fantagraphics Books
Writer(s): Mario, Gilbert, and Jaime Hernandez
Penciller(s): Gilbert Hernandez and Jaime Hernandez
Cover Artist(s): Gilbert Hernandez
I no longer make any pretense of being impartial about cartoonist Jamie Hernandez, but I’m being straight up when I say that he shines on two of his three short tales in LOVE AND ROCKETS, VOL. II #11. He is now clearly the heir to Alex Toth as the master of black and white comics art.
Gilbert Hernandez one-ups the hot TV show, “Desperate Housewives,” with his mad-love soap short, “Dumb Solitaire.” It’s the scariest examination of male sexuality that I can remember reading in a comic book. His collaboration with brother/writer Mario, “Shindleria Praematurus,” is premium comics surrealism on par with the work of Moebius. A-
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