Love and Rockets (comics)

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Love and Rockets
Cover illustration by Gilbert Hernandez for Love and Rockets #16, depicting two of his major Palomar characters, Heraclio and Carmen.
Publication information
Publisher	Fantagraphics
Schedule	irregular
Format	Ongoing series
Publication date	Vol. 1: September 1982 – April 1996 Vol. 2: 2001–2007 Vol. 3: 2008–2016 Vol. 4: 2016–present
No. of issues	Vol. 1: 50 Vol. 2: 20 Vol. 3: 8 Vol. 4: 15
Creative team
Created by	Gilbert Hernandez Jaime Hernandez Mario Hernandez

Love and Rockets (often abbreviated L&R) is a comic book series by the Hernandez brothers: Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario. It was one of the first comic books in the alternative comics movement of the 1980s.^[1]

The Hernandez brothers produce stories in the series independently of each other. Gilbert and Jaime produce the majority of the material, and tend to focus on particular casts of characters and settings. Those of Gilbert usually focus on a cast of characters in the fictional Central American village of Palomar; the stories often feature magic realist elements. The Locas stories of Jaime center on a social group in Los Angeles, particularly the Latin-American friends and sometime-lovers Maggie and Hopey.