Subject: Literary Criticism / Comics & Graphic Novels

Subject: Literary Criticism / Comics & Graphic Novels

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The Hernandez Brothers

|9780822964926|Love, Rockets, and Alternative Comics|This study offers a critical examination of the work of Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, Mexican-American brothers whose graphic novels are highly influential. The Hernandez brothers started in the alt-comics scene, where their 'Love and Rockets' series quickly gained prominence. They have since published in more mainstream venues but have maintained an outsider status based on their own background and the content of their work. Enrique García argues that the Hernandez brothers have worked to create a new American graphic storytelling that, while still in touch with mainstream genres, provides a transgressive alternative from an aesthetic, gender,…

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