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| american comics artists | |
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| 1959 births | |
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| people from oxnard, california | |
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Jaime grew up, together with four brothers and one sister, in Oxnard , California . It was a family where comics were not considered a lesser, mediocre art form. Their mother read comics and old issues were kept in large quantities in the house, to be read and re-read by all over the years. The brothers read all types of comics and enjoyed those that gave a fairly realistic depiction of family life, such as Dennis The Menace , as well as the standard super hero adventures. Jaime's main contribution to ''Love and Rockets'' is the ongoing serial narrative ''Locas'' which follows the tangled lives of a group of primarily Chicano characters, from their teenage years in the early days of the Los Angeles Punk scene to the present day. Two memorable members of Jaime's cast are Margarita "Maggie" Luisa Chascarrillo and Esperanza "Hopey" Leticia Glass, whose on-again, off-again romance is a focus for many ''Locas'' storylines. The entire ''Locas'' storyline was collected into one 700 page Graphic Novel in 2004. One of the more interesting aspects of the ''Locas'' opus is the way Hernandez portrays the passage of time in a relatively realistic manner despite the obvious constraints of the medium. Maggie's character debuted as a slight yet curvy young adult mechanic living in a world both distinctly chicano and punk with a sci-fi twist. As Jaime developed her character into more detail she started to gain weight slowly over each comic issue because of depression and other factors; i.e., each issue made her less of a character made from lines on paper to a human being with complex layers. The present Maggie is now the manager of an apartment complex with bleached blonde hair and a penchant for wearing sexy bathing suits despite her rubenesque figure. Jaime's ''Love and Rockets'' stories are loved by critics and fans alike. As Alan Moore has put it, : "Jaime’s art balances big white and black spaces to create a world of nuance in between, just as his writing balances our big human feelings and our small human trivias to generate its incredible emotional power. Quite simply, this is one of the twentieth century's most significant comic creators at the peak of his form, with every line a wedding of classicism and cool." An early-80s review in '' Publishers Weekly '' stated: : " {Link without Title} stories never fail to entertain, but their claim on literature is due to Hernandez's bracing realism. His virtuoso drawings present characters of intelligence, wit, and human frailty who confront each other -- and the reader -- with such honesty and genuine tenderness that one may find it hard to believe she/he is reading a comic book." INFLUENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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