Life Drawing A Love And Rockets Collection Hc (02/26/2025) Fantagraphics

Ten years in the making (and torn from the pages of the legendary Love and Rockets), Jaime Hernandezs newest graphic novel skillfully weaves two generations of his beloved characters into a satisfying story of loveboth young and middleaged. Life Drawing darts primarily between the youthful Tonta and the venerable Maggie. Tonta has a crush on her art teacher, Ray, as well as an axe to grind with an older woman in the neighborhood. When Tonta finds that the woman, Maggie, is married to Ray, things get complicated. And Tonta does not handle complications well.Life Drawing showcases Hernandez’s brilliant talent for character, weaving relationships, rejections, infidelities, and adventures involving: Tontas selfinvolved sisters Vivian, Violet, and Mueca; her colorful pals Gomez, Judy Fair, and Brown Alice; her mother, the infamous Black Widow of the Valley; and of course, the two great loves of Maggies life, Ray and Hopey. Theres also a forest spirit, two weddings, some cosplay, a little pole dancing, and page after page of breathtaking comics by the mediums most wideeyed romantic. Did we mention the weddings?