![]() ![]() But, as they started to get old, I learned that it helped the characters blossom. In the beginning, my brother Gilbert and I thought it could be fun to let the characters age. Why did you choose to let your characters age? You started “Love and Rockets” nearly forty years ago. We asked Jaime about some of the choices that he made. Hernandez’s simple framing and direct dialogue make for a poignant reintroduction to two beloved characters and their long-standing relationship. ![]() As Maggie and Hopey move further from their present lives and closer to their old haunts, they confront their own dynamics as a pair-past and present. His latest book, “Is This How You See Me?,” out on March 26th, finds Maggie and Hopey, some thirty years later, as ex-lovers but still friends who are about to embark on a two-day reunion in their old neighborhood. The graphic novelist Jaime Hernandez introduced Maggie and Hopey, the on-again, off-again sweethearts immersed in a burgeoning Los Angeles punk scene, in “Locas,” in 1981, as part of the acclaimed “Love and Rockets” series, which he authored with his brothers Gilbert and Mario. ![]()
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