The Brothers Hernandez, and their comic magazine Love and Rockets, are the main reason I still read comics today. They made me more aware of how much potential the art form truly had. But not only is it art, it has a warmth and humor running through it. Their work has something rare in graphic storytelling…soul. Here’s a small gallery of discreet links.
Gilbert’s ‘Birdland’ is worth raising a brow or two to:
http://partikal7.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/sex-and-the-drawn-form-gilbert-hernandez/
As a big fan of Los Bros, I have read some of Birdland. Just never bothered to follow up.
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