Gilbert Hernandez

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  • Bibliography:
    68 Books
  • First Book:
    December 1987
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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Book List in Order: 68 titles

  • The Return of Mr. X

  • Love and Rockets, Volume 4: Tears from Heaven

  • Reticent Heart

  • Blood of Palomar

  • Love and Rockets, Volume 3: Las Mujeres Perdidas

  • Love and Rockets, Volume 1: Music for Mechanics

  • Love and Rockets, Volume 5: House of Raging Women

  • Love and Rockets, Volume 14: Luba Conquers the World

    Fifty issues--collected into 15 volumes that total 2,000 pages--the Hernandez brothers' Love and Rockets is an enormous achievement that helped to create a new audience for comics. Notable for their strong female characters and their focus on relatio...

  • Love and Rockets: Sketchbook

    How do they do it? How do Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez keep topping themselves issue after issue, year after year in their award-winning comic Love and Rockets? Answer: Through hard work, constant experimentation, and page after page of diligent sketc...



  • Love and Rockets, Volume 12: Poison River

    Gilbert Hernandez (Love and Rockets series) has produced some of the best comics work of the last ten years. Poison River is the story of one of his most engaging characters, Luba-self-possesed, intelligent an iconoclastically sexy- in the years befo...

  • Love and Rockets X

  • Fear of Comics

  • Love & Rockets, Vol. 2 #3

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    Marked by TIME Magazine as one of the top 100 innovators to look out for, Los Bros. Hernandez' co...

  • Tales from Shock City

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    The long-lost "Tales of Somnopolis" created by Gilbert and Mario Hernandez, which originall...

  • LUBA in America

    by Gilbert Hernandez
    The first volume depicting Luba's post-Palomar life and times, this book takes the sometimes confusing strands of Gilbert's stories and weaves them into a satisfying thematic whole, as L...

  • Love & Rockets, Vol. 2 #4

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    Imaginary dogs roam its walkways at night. All the air conditioners are broken. The empty swimmin...

  • Love and Rockets, Volume 8: Blood of Palomar

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    The most explosive Heartbreak Soup story ever, “Blood of Palomar” originally ran in Love & Rock...

  • Love & Rockets, Vol. 2 #7

    by Los Bros. Hernandez
    "Julio's Day"-- Jobs become scarce, so Julio and his brother leave town to find work. The stock market crashes. "The High, Soft Lisp"--Fritz re-hooks up with motivational speaker Mark Herrera in...

  • Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories

    by Gilbert Hernandez
    Collects "Heartbreak Soup" stories from Love & Rockets. Palomar is the mythical Central American town where these stories take place, and the stories weave in and out of its entire population, cra...



  • Love & Rockets, Vol. 2 #10

    by Los Bros Hernandez
    It's a special double-sized issue of Love and Rockets, celebrating the tenth issue of Volume 2! In the 20-page final chapter of Jaime's latest "Maggie" serial, a figure rises out of the ashes of ...

  • Speak of the Devil

    There's a peeping tom prowling the neighborhood. Eyewitness reports vary, but one thing is agreed upon: he wears a devil mask.This is the story of Val Castillo, a promising gymnast with a strange hobby. She is secretly the neighborhood peeping tom. A...

  • New Tales of Old Palomar Vol. 3

    The third and last installment of New Tales of Old Palomar, in which Gilbert Hernandez returns to some of his best-loved characters, focuses on the gorgeous but troubled Tonantzin. Everybody in Palomar seems to take the supernatural with a grain of s...

  • Love & Rockets, Vol. 2 #17

    by Los Bros. Hernandez
    Another outstanding issue of one of the most celebrated comics series ever! This time around, Jaime provides the concluding chapter of Day by Day with Hopey, titled "Monday Ain't Just ...

  • Luba: The Book of Ofelia: A Love & Rockets Book

    by Gilbert Hernandez
    In his first graphic novel in two years, Hernandez's The Book of Ofelia begins with Luba, Ofelia and company trying to acclimate to life in America. When Ofelia decides to chronicle her ...

  • Luba: Three Daughters: A Love & Rockets Book

    by Gilbert Hernandez
    Luba: Three Daughters is the final book in Gilbert Hernandez's post-Palomar trilogy, continuing the story of matriarch Luba and her extended family's travails in the United States after ...

  • New Tales of Old Palomar Vol. 1

    New Tales of Old Palomar returns us to where the first Heartbreak Soup story left off. All three issues will deal with the classic characters of Palomar like Pipo, her sister Carmen, sheriff Chelo, and the gang of boys who help start it all: studious...

  • New Tales of Old Palomar Vol. 2

    by Gilbert Hernandez
    Gilbert Hernandez returns to that funky little Central American hamlet of his with another story set in the "Sopa de Gran Pena" days starring "The...

  • Human Diastrophism: The Second Volume of "Palomar" Stories from Love & Rockets

    This volume will collect the second half of Gilbert Hernandez's acclaimed magical-realist tales of "Palomar," the small Central American town, beginning with the landmark "Human Diastrophism," named one of the g...

  • Chance in Hell

    Gilbert Hernandez's first original graphic novel from Fantagraphics tells the story about a little orphan girl who lives in the slum of slums. Nobody knows who she is or where she's from, but her fellow shantyto...



  • Beyond Palomar: A Love and Rockets Book

    "Collects two groundbreaking works: ""Poison River"" traces the backstory of Luba, from child to teenage mob bride to her escape to Palomar; ""Love and Rockets X"" is a wide-ranging, Altman-esque story set i...

  • Love and Rockets: New Stories #1

    Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 reboots the ongoing "Love and Rockets" comic to a fat, all-new annual graphic novel-length package.

    Jaime launches the new format with a superhero yarn: Penny Century has acquired superpowers, but is half-mad w...

  • Sloth

    "SLOTH is a welcome head trip." -- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY"Full of David Lynch-like inversions, haunted lemon orchards and indie rock bands, SLOTH is a tale you read once and immediately read again." -- US NEWS & WORLD REPORTEisner Award-winning creator...

  • Luba

    The sequel to the 2003 perennial classic, Palomar. Gilbert Hernandez climaxed his award-winning “Palomar” series at the end of Love and Rockets' original run by leveling the Central American hamlet. But he soon picked up the story of Luba: The ha...

  • Love and Rockets: New Stories #2

    In the summer of 2008, Fantagraphics Books brought the classic Love andRockets brand to a whole new audience with the hugely successful firstvolume of the trade-paperback sized Love and Rockets: New Stories. A yearlater, the Hernande...

  • The Troublemakers

    Low-life drug dealer Dewey Booth has $200,000 that even-lower-lifes want. Wes is a rock and roll loser that only wants to buy a club where nobody can tell him he can't sing or perform. He's known Dewey for years, but that isn't enough to get his doug...

  • High Soft Lisp

    “Five six. Hundred twenty-eight pounds. Forty-three twenty-two thirty-six. High soft lisp. Genius level I.Q.” That's how motivational speaker Mark Herrera sums up Rosalba “Fritz” Martinez, bombshell, former punkette, former psy...

  • Love and Rockets: New Stories #3

    All-new stories featuring Jaime’s Maggie and Ray, plus Gilbert’s Fritz and the “Sad Girl.”

    After Jaime’s two-part super-hero epic from Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 and #2, we return to the enthralling minutiae of the “Locas” ...

  • Love from the Shadows

    A new graphic novel starring Fritz, Fritz, and...Fritz!

    The third in Gilbert Hernandez’s line of original hardcovers featuring Love and Rockets’ “Fritz” in her guise as a Z-movie actress (the first two were Chance in Hell and The Troub...

  • Love and Rockets: New Stories #4

    More romantic travails for Maggie (in the sequel to the acclaimed €œBrowntown€) €Â" plus vampires!With Love and Rockets: New Stories #3, Jaime Hernandez returned to his beloved €œLoca€ Maggie after a three-year hiatus, and the resultant st...



  • The Adventures of Venus

    A rare foray into all-ages work, “The Adventures of Venus” was Gilbert Hernandez’s contribution to the kids’ anthology Measles, which he edited in 1999 and 2000. Luba’s niece Venus creates and collects comic books, walks through a scary for...

  • Love and Rockets: New Stories #5

    In Love and Rockets: New Stories #5, in Jaime’s “Crime Raiders International Mobsters and Executioners,” Muñeca, the Frogmouth’s half-sister, comes to visit for a weekend and sees what kind of life the Frogmouth is living with Reno and Borne...

  • Julio's Day

    • It begins in the year 1900, with the scream of a newborn. It ends, 100 pages later, in the year 2000, with the death rattle of a 100-year-old man. The infant and the old man are both Julio, and Gilbert Hernandez's Julio's Day is his latest g...

  • Marble Season

    The untold coming-of-age story from a contemporary comics master Marble Season is the all-new semi-autobiographical novel by acclaimed cartoonist Gilbert Hernandez, author of the epic masterpiece Palomar, and co-creator of the groundbreaking Love an...

  • The Children of Palomar

    New Tales Old Palomar is collects a three-issue comics magazine series into one handsome book. In the first story, mysterious, fast-moving thieves are stealing food; Sheriff Chelo and some citizens do their best to solve this mystery, but nobody seem...

  • Love and Rockets: New Stories #6

    Love and Rockets: New Stories #6's cover shows Gilbertââ,¬â"˘s new star Killer in a pose and milieu that will bring back memories for long-time fans ââ,¬â€ť imitating the hammer-wielding Luba in her adopted Palomar. Thatââ,¬â"˘s because Killer has...

  • Maria M.: Book One

    In the first book of two, Gilbert Hernandez cartoons a meta “movie adaptation” of his Poison River storyline (complete with drug lords, “shady guardian angels,” torrid affairs and more) starring Fritz as her mother.

    A woman comes to the...

  • Fatima

    Comics luminary Gilbert Hernandez envisions his strangest, most thrilling future yet! A drug called "spin" offers the wildest trip imaginable, followed by its users' inevitable, rapid deterioration into undead flesh eaters. Despite the side effect, t...

  • Fatima: The Blood Spinners

    Comics luminary Gilbert Hernandez envisions his strangest, most thrilling future yet! A drug called "spin" offers the wildest trip imaginable, followed by its users' inevitable, rapid deterioration into undead flesh eaters. Despite the side effect, t...

  • Luba And Her Family: A Love And Rockets Book

    Gilbert Hernandezââ,¬â"˘ characters bid ââ,¬Ĺ"Farewell, My Palomarââ,¬Âť as they exit the Eden of the Central American town in Volume 10 of the Love and Rockets Library (at least for the time being). Locals have begun to drift up to the United Sta...



  • Bumperhead

    A fascinating tale of drugs, rock and roll, and adolescence from a legendary cartoonist Love and Rockets author Gilbert Hernandez returns with Bumperhead, a companion book to Marble Season. Whereas Marble Season explored the exuberant and occasional...

  • Loverboys

    Welcome to Lagrimas, a small south-of-the-border town where young men who consider themselves "loverboys" constantly hit on the ladies, but get shot down most of the time--until one begins an affair with the woman who used to be his seventh grade tea...

  • "Heartbreak Soup: The First Volume of ""Palomar"" Stories from Love & Rockets"

    This beautiful, affordable volume collects the first half of Gilbert's modern-day classic, featuring the acclaimed magical-realist tales of Palomar, the Central American hamlet, and its memorable inhabitants.

  • Love and Rockets: New Stories #7

    The seventh annual volume of Love and Rockets: New Stories, the most important and enduring alternative comics series in the history of the medium, finds Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez writing and drawing at the top of their game. In Jaime’s stories, ...

  • Ofelia: A Love and Rockets Book

    In the latest Gilbert Hernandez volume of the Love and Rockets library series, Ofelia threatens to write a book about Luba, and Fritz and Pipo fall in love.

    In Ofelia, the sisters, the kids, and the cousins are all settled comfortably in Calif...

  • Citizen Rex

    A bizarre, sexy look into the future from comics legends Mario & Gilbert Hernandez!When gossip blogger Sergio Bauntin investigates the illusive robot celebrity CTZ-RX-1, he provokes the city’s shady power players, who don’t want the story to ...

  • Grip

    From comics luminary and Love and Rockets cocreator Gilbert Hernandez comes a mind-bending genre mashup unlike any other! Never before collected, Grip: The Strange World of Men returns in an expanded edition with new story pages! When Mike Chang wake...

  • Girl Crazy

    Kitten, Maribel, and Gaby are three very different childhood friends about to celebrate their sixteenth birthdays, which all happen to fall on the same day. But someone's missing--their fourth friend, Una, who's imprisoned in Tijuana. So the trio set...

  • Comics Dementia

    Comics Dementia collects unexpected treasures, oddities, and rarities from outposts of the Love and Rockets galaxy, by one of Earth's greatest living cartoonists, Gilbert Hernandez. Saints, sinners, and the Candide-like Roy mingle in jungles, in fabl...

  • Love And Rockets: New Stories No. 8

    In this eighth annual volume of New Stories, Jaime takes us to the punk reunion that Maggie & Hopey were road tripping to last issue. Will Hopey actually show up, or will Maggie have to go it alone? Hell, will anybody show up? Lots of old friends and...

  • The Twilight Children

    Comics legends Gilbert Hernandez (LOVE AND ROCKETS), Darwyn Cooke (DC: THE NEW FRONTIER) and Dave Stewart (HELLBOY) craft a haunting and unforgettable tale of magical realism with THE TWILIGHT CHILDREN. No one knows what the mysterious glowing sphere...

  • Garden Of Flesh

    Award-winning cartoonist Gilbert Hernandez gives his own unique spin to Bible tales in this graphic novel.

    As only the unfettered Id of Gilbert Hernandez could conceive, Garden of Flesh is a sexually explicit retelling of the story of Adam and...

  • Fritz After Dark: The Love And Rockets Library Vol. 14

    In this omnibus, which collects Three Daughters, High Soft Lisp and more, Luba, Petra, and Fritz are moving on to the next phases of their lives and careers…and showbiz comes calling.

    In Three Sisters, which collects the graphic novels Luba:...

  • Maria M.

    This brutal, original crime thriller graphic novel, from the co-creator of Love and Rockets, tells the story of femme fatale Maria M.

    Maria M.'s is a sordid tale of sex, drugs, violence, and power. When she comes to America for a better life, ...

  • Hypnotwist

    Collects (and expands!) the graphic novellas Hypnotwist and Scarlet by Starlight from Love and Rockets: New Stories in a handsome Double Feature package.Eisner Award-winning creator Gilbert Hernandez returns with another installment in ...

  • Blubber

    The great Gilbert Hernandez's unfettered Id unleashed! Absurd, explicit, and profanely funny, Blubber makes all other comics blush.Drawn from the first five issues of Gilbert Hernandez's comic book series Blubber, an absurdly X-rated showcase fo...

  • Children of Palomar and Other Tales: A Love and Rockets Book

    This comics omnibus includes the graphic novels Julio’s Day and The Children of Palomar, as well as never-before-collected work by brothers Mario and Gilbert Hernandez, some of which has never been available since its early 2000s run ...

  • Proof That the Devil Loves You

    This book presents three Fritz B-movies: one all-new, two revised and expanded from their initial comic book run. The titular story is a fable set in a world very reminiscent of Palomar. Then, Fritz plays an “astronette” on an existen...

  • Love and Rockets: The Sketchbooks

    Presented as a handsome dual-sided book with two covers, go behind the scenes of The Brothers Hernandez: over 400 pages of sketches, inked drawings, early comics, and uninhibited graphic ephemera that never made it into the pages of Love and Rock...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gilbert Hernandez has published 68 books.

Gilbert Hernandez does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Love and Rockets: The Sketchbooks, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Gilbert Hernandez, The Return of Mr. X, was published in December 1987.

No. Gilbert Hernandez does not write books in series.
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