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Life Drawing: A Love and Rockets Collection

Two Latinas, separated by a generation, hinder and help each other find their place in a world they never made.

Ten years in the making (and torn from the pages of the legendary Love and Rockets), Jaime Hernandez's newest graphic novel skillfully weaves two generations of his beloved characters into a satisfying story of love—both young and middle-aged. 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: Tonta's self-involved sisters Vivian, Violet, and Muñeca; 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 Maggie's life, Ray and Hopey. There's also a forest spirit, two weddings, some cosplay, a little pole dancing, and page after page of breathtaking comics by the medium's most wide-eyed romantic. Did we mention the weddings?

Life Drawing: A Love and Rockets Collection is part of the Love and Rocketsseries.

Characters

Isabel Maria "Izzy" Ortiz Reubens

Izzy is the oldest of Maggie's and Hopey's Hoppers friends. At age eight she bonds with Maggie while babysitting her. (Years later, it's Izzy who introduces Maggie to Hopey.) As a teenager, she's a founding member of the gang Las Widows, but after serving a misdemeanour jail sentence she straightens out and completes high school. While in college, her relationship with her father falls apart over her aspiration to become a writer rather than a teacher. Izzy marries her English professor, Jack Reubens, but divorces him a year later and has an abortion. Guilt from her Roman Catholic upbringing dogs her over these actions, and she attempts suicide. After recuperating in hospital, she travels to Mexico where, despite initially finding happiness as nanny to a young boy and lover to his single father, her guilt and psychic sensitivity leave her vulnerable to horrific demonic visions and visits from Satan. Following her return, alone, to Hoppers, family and friends notice Izzy's no longer the same: she neglects her appearance, seldom leaves the old, reputedly haunted house she's purchased, and becomes generally dour and occult-obsessed. Nevertheless, she remains a close, even wise at times, friend to Maggie and lets her and Hopey live with her temporarily. As well, despite her brother Speedy's suicide, and another mental breakdown and institutionalization, she achieves some degree of success as an author. However, she has trouble dealing with the publicity and becomes increasingly temperamental, at times alienating her friends. When the Devil threatens to haunt Maggie as well, Izzy finally exorcises him by burning her house down and leaving Hoppers forever.
  • Deadpan Snarker: She can be this in her more stable and less depressed moments.
  • The Eeyore: Izzy, post-Mexico, rarely smiles or laughs, and her dialogue tends toward the gloomy and fatalistic. At times this crosses over into outright morbid and disturbing pronouncem

Music

Clockwise from left: Daniel Ash (guitars, vocals), Kevin Haskins (drums), David J (bass, vocals)

"My world is your world
People like to hear their names
I'm no exception
Please call my name"

— "No New Tale to Tell"

Love and Rockets were an Alternative Rock band from England, composed of the members of Goth Rock godfathers Bauhaus, minus Peter Murphy: guitarist Daniel Ash, bassist David J, and drummer Kevin Haskins. They formed after Bauhaus split and Ash's side band, Tones on Tail, dissolved. The three attempted a reunion for Bauhaus, but Murphy declined to join, so the remaining trio formed a new group named after the comic.

Their style incorporated Post-Punk, '60s Psychedelic Rock, and later in the band's life Electronic Music, and they had a Top 10 hit in the US in 1989 with "So Alive."

The band split in 1999, reformed in 2007 alongside a brief Bauhaus reunion, then split again in 2009. Daniel and Kevin formed a new group in 2017, Poptone, with bassist Diva Dompe, before another Bauhaus reunion in 2019.

Studio Discography:

  • Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven (1985)
  • Express (1986)
  • Earth, Sun, Moon (1987)
  • Love and Rockets (1989)
  • Hot Trip to Heaven (1994)
  • Sweet F.A. (1996)
  • Lift (1998)

This band provides examples of:

  • Alternative Rock: One of the bands that bridged the Post-Punk of the '70s with the Alternative College Rock of the '80s.
  • Cover Version: The Temptations' "Ball of Confusion" and Pink Floyd's "Lucifer Sam."
  • '80s Hair: Daniel's and Kevin's hair defied gravity, as seen above.
  • Electronic Music: Their last few albums incorporated electronics and dancier rhythms.
  • Goth Rock: Born out of Goth Rock forefathers Bauhaus, elements of it always remained in their sound but became less prominent with every album.
  • Lesser Star: Kevin didn't sing or write, but he was still important to the band's sound.
  • New Sound Album:
    • Earth, Sun, Moon had a more acoustic, folkier sound.
    • Love and Rockets and Sweet F.A. had

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