Issues
Love and Rockets is an influential comic book series created by brothers Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, first published by Fantagraphics in 1981. Blending elements of punk rock, magical realism, and slice-of-life storytelling, the series explores complex characters and relationships across multiple storylines. Gilbert’s Palomar saga follows the lives of residents in a fictional Latin American town, while Jaime’s Locas stories focus on the punk subculture and the evolving friendship of Maggie and Hopey. Celebrated for its rich character development and groundbreaking representation, Love and Rockets remains one of the most acclaimed indie comics of all time.
Love and Rockets Vol.01 01-50 (1982-1996)
Love and Rockets Vol.02 01-20 (2001-2007)
Love and Rockets: New Stories Vol.03 01-08 (2008-2016)
Love and Rockets Vol.04 01-15 (2016-2024)
Collected
The Love and Rockets Library 01-15 (2007-ongoing)
The Love and Rockets Library, omnibus editions, cover the series essentials from beginning to present in convenient collections. These collections are separated into the “Locas” and “Palomar” stories and ordered sequentially, so each begins with a different volume one.
The Complete Love and Rockets 01-32 (1985-ongoing)
The Complete Love and Rockets Trades also collect Jaime and Gilbert’s work in chronological order, beginning with the series’ initial 1982 run. Unlike The Love and Rockets Library, the trade collections are chronological in publishing order, meaning they are not sorted into “Locas” and “Palomar” stories. All of this material is also present in The Love and Rockets Library.
Mechanics 01-03 (1985)
Series
Psychodrama Illustrated 01-08 (2024) Fantagraphics
A Love and Rockets spin-off featuring Fritz and her extended family in a series of stories that bend Fritz's reality.
Girl Crazy 01-03 / tpb / hc (2016) Dark Horse Comics Kitten, Maribel, and Gaby are three very different childhood friends about to celebrate their sixteenth birthdays, which all happen to fall on the same day. But someone's missing - their fourth friend Una.
Blubber 01-06 / tpb (2015-2021) Dark Horse Comics An absurd X-rated showcase for the most surreally transgressive of Hernandez's short stories, weirdos, creatures and anthropomorphs.
Citizen Rex 01-06 / tpb (2009-2011) Dark Horse Comics
Robot CTZ-RX-1 (a.k.a. "Citizen Rex") and his quest to avenge himself. The story mixes science fiction, drama, mystery, and comedy.
Speak of The Devil 01-06 / hc (2007-2008) Dark Horse Comics
Gilbert Hernandez introduces what seems like a relatively ordinary story of a frustrated teenager, rebelling in little more than the standard way, but quickly moves into dark territory concerning hidden personal desires that spiral beyond control.
New Tales of Old Palomar 01-03 (2006-2007) Fantagraphics Books
New Tales of Old Palomar returns to where the first Heartbreak Soup story left off. All three issues deal with the classic characters of Palomar.
Grip: The Strange World of Men 01-05 / tpb (2001-2002) Vertigo DC Comics
When Mike Chang wakes up with nothing but a lipstick smudge, someone else’s suit, and amnesia, he’s thrown into a world of criminal gangs, crime fighters, skin swappers, and a one-eyed girl with bizarre powers.
Luba's Comics and Stories 01-08 (2000-2006) Fantagraphics Books
The series follows Luba as she relocates to the United States with her family, navigating complex relationships, personal struggles, and the challenges of adapting to a new life. Hernandez delves deeper into Luba’s history, exploring her past traumas, family dynamics, and the interwoven lives of her daughters and extended relatives.
Luba 01-10 (1998-2005) Fantagraphics Books
The series follows Luba as she relocates to the United States with her family, navigating complex relationships, personal struggles, and the challenges of adapting to a new life. Hernandez delves deeper into Luba’s history, exploring her past traumas, family dynamics, and the interwoven lives of her daughters and extended relatives.
Yeah! 01-09 / tpb (1999-2000) DC Wildstorm
A girl-centered 'rock'n'roll extravaganza' comic book co-created by Peter Bagge and Gilbert Hernandez. Later collected as a trade paperback by Fantagraphics in 2011.
Penny Century 01-03 (1997-2000) Fantagraphics Books
The series focuses on Penny Century, a glamorous, adventurous woman obsessed with gaining superpowers, while also exploring the lives of other characters from Jaime’s Love and Rockets universe, including Maggie and Hopey.
Fatima: The Blood Spinners 01-06 (1996-1997) Dark Horse Comics Fatima was published by Dark Horse Comics through their Dark Horse Originals imprint from June to September 2012. The series concerns the attempt of heroine Fatima to combat a drug called Spin that threatens to turn the human race into zombies.
New Love 01-06 (1996-1997) Fantagraphics Books A mix of experimental storytelling, romance, surrealism, and humor. New Love explores different characters and settings, offering a diverse range of short stories, vignettes, and character studies.
Whoa, Nellie! 01-03 (1996) Fantagraphics Books Whoa, Nellie! by Jaime Hernandez follows the lives of Xochitl and Gina on the women's wrestling circuit.
Birdland 01-03, 01 / tpb (1990-1994) Fantagraphics Books Adults Only title published under the Eros imprint of Fantagraphics.
Index
Love and Rockets Library, The 01-15 (2007-2023)
- Series of trade paperbacks that collects all of Jaime and Gilbert’s Love and Rockets work, chronologically from issue 01 in 1982.
1. Maggie the Mechanic by Jaime Hernandez; Locas Book 1, collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets vol. 1 #1-11, 13-15, Mechanics #1-2, and Anything Goes!; February 2007; 272 pages
2. Heartbreak Soup by Gilbert Hernandez; Palomar Book 1, collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets vol. 1 #3-10, 12-20; January 2007; 288 pages
3. The Girl from H.O.P.P.E.R.S. by Jaime Hernandez; Locas Book 2, collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets vol. 1 #13-32; June 2007; 272 pages
4. Human Diastrophism by Gilbert Hernandez; Palomar Book 2, collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets vol. 1 #21-26, 41-48, 50, Anything Goes! #4, The Reticent Heart and Other Stories, and Ten Years of Love and Rockets; July 2007; 288 pages
5. Perla la Loca by Jaime Hernandez; Locas Book 3, collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets vol. 1 #33-50; November 2007; 288 pages
6. Beyond Palomar, by Gilbert Hernandez; Palomar Book 3, collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets vol. 1 #29-40; October 2007; 256 pages
7. Amor Y Cohetes by Jaime, Gilbert & Mario Hernandez; Non-Locas and Palomar comics, collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets vol. 1 #1-5, 9, 11-12, 16-17, 19, 21, 27-29, 40-43, 45-46, 59-50, Ten Years of Love and Rockets, and The Village Voice; April 2008; 280 pages
8. Penny Century by Jaime Hernandez; Locas Book 4, collecting stories from:
Whoa, Nellie! #1-3, Maggie and Hopey Color Fun Special #1, Penny Century #1-7, and Love and Rockets vol. 2 #5; April 2010; 240 pages
9. Esperanza by Jaime Hernandez; Locas Book 5, collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets vol. 2 #1-4, 6-19; August 2011; 248 pages
10. Luba and Her Family by Gilbert Hernandez; Luba Book 1, collecting stories from:
New Love #1-6, Luba's Comics and Stories #1, Luba #1-4, and Measles #1, 6; June 2014; 312 pages
11. Ofelia by Gilbert Hernandez; Luba Book 2, collecting stories from:
Luba's Comics and Stories #2-5, Luba #3-10, and Measles #3; January 2015; 256 pages
12. Comics Dementia by Gilbert Hernandez; Non-Locas and Palomar comics; collecting stories from:
New Love #1-6, Love and Rockets vol. 2 #1-6, 8, 10-11, 14, and 19, Goody Good Comics #1, The Comics Journal Special Edition #1 and 4, Details Magazine #11/1992, UG!3K & Expozo, The Naked Cosmos, Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy #2, Slant Magazine, Weirdo #25, Strip AIDS U.S.A., Vortex #7, Hate #26, Mome #19, Zero Zero #7, and Measles #5; February 2016; 224 pages
13. Angels and Magpies by Jaime Hernandez; Locas Book 6, collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets vol. 2 #20, and Love and Rockets: New Stories #1-4; December 2017; 260 pages
14. Three Sisters by Gilbert Hernandez; Luba Book 3, collecting stories from:
Luba's Comics and Stories #3-4, 6-8, Love and Rockets vol. 2 #3-9, 11-18, and original material from Luba: Three Daughters; August 2018; 280 pages
15. Children of Palomar & Other Stories by Gilbert & Mario Hernandez; Palomar Book 5 and uncollected non-Palomar stories, collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets vol. 2 #1-14, 17-19, New Love #6, New Tales of Old Palomar #1-3 and Love and Rockets: New Stories #1; January 2023; 280 pages
Complete Love and Rockets, The 01-32 (2007-2023)
- Fantagraphics stopped numbering the series after 24.
1. Music for Mechanics by Los Bros Hernandez; collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets vol. 1 #1-2; October 1985; 152 pages
Preface by Carter Scholz
2. Chelo's Burden by Los Bros Hernandez; collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets vol. 1 #3-4, Mechanics #1 and original material; June 1986; 144 pages
Preface by Gary Groth
3. Las Mujeres Perdidas by Los Bros Hernandez (only Gilbert and Jaime); collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets vol. 1 #5-11 and original material; August 1987; 160 pages
4. Tears from Heaven by Los Bros Hernandez (Gilbert and Jaime; one cover by Mario); collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets vol. 1 #5-8, 10-12, Mechanics #1-2, and original material; January 1988; 136 pages
5. House of Raging Women, by Los Bros Hernandez (only Gilbert and Jaime from now on); collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets vol. 1 #13-16 and original material; September 1988; 136 pages
6. Duck Feet by Los Bros Hernandez; collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets vol. 1 #6, 9, 17-20, and Anything Goes! #2; September 1988; 136 pages
7. The Death of Speedy by Jaime Hernandez; collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets vol. 1 #20-27; November 1989; 136 pages
8. Blood of Palomar by Gilbert Hernandez; collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets vol. 1 #21-26, Anything Goes! #4, The Reticent Heart and Other Stories, and original material; December 1989; 128 pages
9. Flies on the Ceiling by Los Bros Hernandez (principally Jaime); collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets vol. 1 #21, 27-32; October 1991; 128 pages
10. Love and Rockets X by Gilbert Hernandez; collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets vol. 1 #31-39; July 1993; 72 pages
11. Wigwam Bam by Jaime Hernandez; collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets vol. 1 #33-39, 42; March 1994; 136 pages
12. Poison River by Gilbert Hernandez; collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets vol. 1 #29-40; September 1994; 192 pages
13. Chester Square by Jaime Hernandez; collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets vol. 1 #40-50; July 1996; 160 pages
14. Luba Conquers the World by Gilbert Hernandez; collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets vol. 1 #41-48, 50, Ten Years of Love and Rockets and original material; December 1996; 136 pages
15. Hernandez Satyricon by Los Bros Hernandez (Mario, Gilbert & Jaime Hernandez); collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets vol. 1 #40-43, 45-46, 49-50, Ten Years of Love and Rockets and original material; August 1997; 160 pages
16. Whoa Nellie! by Jaime Hernandez; collecting Whoa Nellie! #1-3; June 2000; 80 pages
17. Fear of Comics by Gilbert Hernandez; collecting stories from:
New Love #1-6, Vortex #7, Hate #26, UG!3K & Expozo, Zero Zero #7, and Goody Good Comics #1; October 2000; 120 pages
18. Locas in Love by Jaime Hernandez; collecting Maggie and Hopey Color Fun Special #1, and stories from:
Penny Century #1-4, and Measles #2; October 2000; 120 pages
19. Luba in America by Gilbert Hernandez; collecting stories from:
New Love #1-6, Luba #1-4, Luba's Comics and Stories #1 and original material; January 2001; 168 pages
20. Dicks and Deedees by Jaime Hernandez; collecting Penny Century #5-7 and stories from:
Love and Rockets vol. 2 #4-5; June 2003; 96 pages
21. Luba: The Book of Ofelia by Gilbert Hernandez; collecting stories from:
Luba #3-10, Luba's Comics and Stories #2-5, and Measles #3; December 2005; 256 pages
22. Ghost of Hoppers by Jaime Hernandez; collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets vol. 2 #1-4 and 6-10; December 2005; 120 pages
23. Luba: Three Daughters by Gilbert Hernandez; collecting stories from:
Luba's Comics and Stories #3-4, 6, 8, Love and Rockets vol. 2 #6, 11-16, Measles #1 and original material; August 2006; 144 pages
24. The Education of Hopey Glass by Jaime Hernandez; collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets vol. 2 #11-19; April 2008; 128 pages
25. High Soft Lisp by Gilbert Hernandez; collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets vol. 2 #3-9, 11, 13-15, 17-18, and Luba's Comics and Stories #7; April 2010; 144 pages
26. God and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls by Jaime Hernandez; collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets: New Stories #1-2 and original material; July 2012; 144 pages
27. Julio's Day by Gilbert Hernandez; collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets vol. 2 #1-14, 17-19; April 2013; 112 pages
28. The Children of Palomar by Gilbert Hernandez; collecting from:
New Tales of Old Palomar #1-3; August 2013; 104 pages (part of the Ignatz series)
29. The Love Bunglers by Jaime Hernandez; collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets: New Stories #3-4; April 2014; 100 pages
30. Is This How You See Me? by Jaime Hernandez; collecting stories from:
Love and Rockets: New Stories #7-8 and Love and Rockets vol. 4 #1-5; April 2019; 96 pages
31. Tonta by Jaime Hernandez; collecting stories from Love and Rockets: New Stories #5-6; July 2019; 104 pages
32. Life Drawing by Jaime Hernandez; collecting stories from Love and Rockets: New Stories #7-8 and Love and Rockets vol. 4 #1-2, 6-15; February 2025; 136 pages
Birdland
Bumperhead (2014)
Chance in Hell (2007)
Children of Palomar (2013)
Citizen Rex (2011)
Garden of the Flesh
God and Science - Return of the Ti-Girls (2012)
Grip - The Strange World of Men
- Issues 01-05 (2015), trade paperback (2016)
Hypnotwist - Scarlet by Starlight (2021)
Is This How You See Me (2019)
Julio's Day
Love & Rockets vol.02 (1-20)
Love & Rockets vol.04 (09-15)
Love and Rockets - New Stories (2009
Love and Rockets - Stories (2016
Love and Rockets - The Covers (2013)
Love and Rockets issues 01-50 (1982-1996)
Love and Rockets Vol. 03 - New Stories 01-08 (2008-2016)
Love and Rockets Vol. 04 01-05 (2016-2018)
Love from the Shadows (2011)
Loverboys (2014)
Luba (1-10)
Luba's Comics and Stories (1-8)
Luba's Comics and Stories 01-05 (2000-2004)
Maggie and Hopey - Color Fun (1997)
Marble Season (2015)
Maria M. - Book 01 (2013)
Maria M. (2019)
Measles (1-8)
New Love (1-6)
New Tales of Old Palomar (1-3)
Penny Century (1-7)
Psychodrama Illustrated 001-004 (2020-2021)
Sloth
Speak of the Devil (2008)
The Adventures of Venus (2012)
The Love and Rockets Companion (2013)
The Love Bunglers (2014)
The Reticent Heart and Other Stories
The Troublemakers (2009)
Whoa Nellie! (1-3)
Tonta (2019)
Yeah!.