Out November 21, 2012
This oversized art book collects the comics series’ iconic covers sans title or logo.
Five
women stand in a police lineup; four of them are garishly dressed,
impressively endowed superwomen — perfectly normal, because this is,
after all, the cover of a comic book. A closer look, however, reveals a
fifth woman who seems thoroughly out of place — mousy, in bathrobe and
curlers, smoking a cigarette, she appears to have been suddenly yanked
from her breakfast table. Surely, this diminutive, dowdy woman is here
by mistake — or is she?
From the very first cover of the very first
issue of Love and Rockets in 1982, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez
have created artwork that has subverted, contradicted and celebrated the
history of the comic book medium, inverting familiar tropes and
creating some of the most iconic images in comics over the past three
and a half decades, inviting fans and readers into their world.
Amazingly, many of the covers created by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez for
the various iterations of Love and Rockets over the past 35 years have never been collected or have only been reprinted in black-and-white. Love and Rockets: The Covers
will not only rectify this problem, but present them without trade
dress (logos, marketing hype, etc.), allowing the original cover
illustrations to communicate on their own. This will be a gorgeous,
oversized art book and the perfect gift for fans of the series that
virtually defines alternative comics.
No comments:
Post a Comment