I've said on a number of occasions that one way to enjoy Moore's Awesome work is as a guide through the great works of comics' history. That's as good an excuse as any to talk about Love and Rockets.
Locas follows the tangled lives of a group of primarily chicano characters, from their teenage years in the early days of the California punk scene to the present day. (Huerta, is a fictional city based on the Hernandezes' home town of Oxnard, California.) Two memorable members of Jaime's cast are Margarita Luisa "Maggie" Chascarrillo and Esperanza "Hopey" Leticia Glass, whose on-again, off-again romance is a focus for many storylines. The series is often called Locas (Spanish for "crazy women") because of the many quirky female characters depicted.
Moore had this to say about Jaime for an introduction to one of the Locas collections:
“Jaime’s art balances big white and black spaces to create a world of nuance in between, just as his writing balances our big human feelings and our small human trivias to generate its incredible emotional power. Quite simply, this is one of the twentieth centuries most significant comic creators at the peak of his form, with every line a wedding of classicism and cool."
Hernandez has a lifelong fascination with pro wrestling, especially women's wrestling, and it has been a regular part of his work, including in a miniseries for a pair of tag-team wrestlers called Whoa Nellie!
Can you imagine Suprema making some of these moves?
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