April 12, 2024
GILBERT HERNANDEZ ART - LOVE AND ROCKETS #13 PAGE 27 - An American in Palomar
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Original Art from LOVE AND ROCKETS #13 RARE EARLY ART from a beloved story line... An American in Palomar Part 1.You are bidding on page 27 as pencilled and inked by Gilbert "Beto" Hernandez in 1984. Gilbert and his brother Jaime (AKA Los Bros Hernandez) are two of the most important comic creators of the Independent Comics movement (also known as the Black and White boom) beginning in the mid-1980s.He is best known for his Palomar/Heartbreak Soup stories in Love and Rockets , an alternative comic book he shared with his brothers Jaime and Mario.Hernandez has said that, at a young age, he was particularly enamored with superhero comics--particularly 1960s Marvel Comics artists such as Jack Kirby's work on Fantastic Four and Steve Ditko, and the cartoony art of DC Comics artists such as Carmine Infantino and Dick Sprang. He also said he drew a large influence from humorously exaggerated, naturalistic artists such as Dan DeCarlo, Harry Lucey and Bob Bolling's work on various Archie Comics titles. He was impressed by the longer, "epic" stories he found, for example, in Classics Illustrated, or in issue #2 of Charlton Premiere Comics.The style of Gilbert's work has been described as magic realism or as a "magic-realist take on Central American soap opera". A common theme is the portrayal of independent women, and their strength, with
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