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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Wrestling, romance, and more in the fourth omnibus collection of Locas stories from Love and Rockets. Zusammenfassung Picking up right after Perla La Loca ! the third volume of thedefinitive "Maggie" series repackaging! this compilation of stories from JaimeHernandez' solo comic Penny Century and his subsequent return to Loveand Rockets (Volume II) charts the further lives of his beloved "Locas." Butfirst... wrestling! Penny Century starts off with a blast with "Whoa!Nellie!!" a unique graphic novelette in which Maggie! who has settled in withher pro-wrestler aunt for a while! experiences that wild and woolly worldfirst-hand. Then it's back to chills and spills with the old cast of Hopey! RayDominguez! and Izzy Ortiz! including Maggie's romantic dream fantasia "The Race"and the definitive Ray story! "Everybody Loves Me! Baby." Penny Century alsofeatures two major "flashback" stories: "Bay of Threes" finally reveals thefull back story behind Beatriz "Penny Century" Garcia! Maggie's long-time!bleached-blonde bombshell friend (who gives this volume its name and cancurrently be seen as a super-villainess in Love and Rockets New Stories )!while "Home School" is one of Hernandez' popular looks at his characters' livesfrom when they were little kids! drawn in an adorable simplified Dennis theMenace style. ...
