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For the past 40 years, acclaimed graphic novelist Jaime Hernandez has been creating a
Love and Rockets-adjacent world -- set in the heyday of 1960s and '70s women's wrestling and lucha libre! -- with an entirely separate cast of characters who have aged and evolved: the beautiful and brutal Bettie Rey, the I.F.W. Pacific Women's Champion -- a.k.a. Golden Girl -- as well as former champions Pantera Negra, Miss Kitty Perez, and many more.
About the author
Jaime Hernandez was one of six siblings born and raised in Oxnard, California. His mother passed down a love of comics, which for Jaime became a passion rivaled only by his interest in the burgeoning punk rock scene of 1970s Southern California. Together with his brothers Gilbert and Mario, Jaime co-created the ongoing comic book series
Love and Rockets in 1981, which Gilbert and Jaime continue to both write and draw to this day. Jaime's work began as a perfect (if unlikely) synthesis of the anarchistic, do-it-yourself aesthetic of the punk scene and an elegant cartooning style that recalled masters such as Charles M. Schulz and Alex Toth.
Love and Rockets has evolved into one of the great bodies of American literary fiction, spanning five decades and countless high-water marks in the medium's history. In 2016, Hernandez won the prestigious
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for his graphic novel,
The Love Bunglers. In 2017, he (along with Gilbert) was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame, and, in 2018, he released his first children's book, the Aesop Book Prize-winning
The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America. He is a lifelong Angeleno.
