New documentary produced about the history of Love and Rockets
Boing-Boing announced a new documentary was filmed, spotlighting the early independent comic Love and Rockets, created by the Hernandez brothers:
Love and Rockets was one of the first alternative comic books. It's not a superhero comic book. The characters are, for the most part, normal people, and they have been aging for the last forty years.They did the right thing to produce their own comic. It's an example that's bound to be more common than corporate owned superhero fare in the near future.
As artists and writers, Gilbert and Jaime are masters of the comic book art form. I can't think of any other comic book artists who have worked on the same title (and for the same publisher, Fantagraphics) for that long!
Last week, Carla and I attended the premiere of Love & Rockets: The Great American Comic Book, a fantastic hour-long documentary produced by KCET in Los Angeles as part of its superb Artbound series, now in its 13th season. It screened in North Hollywood, and the Hernandez Brother attended, along with the filmmakers Omar Foglio and Jose Luis Figueroa of Dignicraft. It was great to hear the origin story of Love and Rockets and learn about Gilbert and Jaime's upbringing in the agricultural town of Oxnard, about an hour north of Los Angeles.
Labels: good artists, good writers, history, indie publishers
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