{"product_id":"the-classic-love-and-rockets-40th-anniversary-slipcase-set","title":"The Classic Love and Rockets 40th Anniversary Slipcase Set","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eIn celebration of the 40th anniversary of Fantagraphics’ flagship series, this prestigious box set presents bound facsimiles of the original fifty issues of the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLove and Rockets\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecomics magazines.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWINNER OF THE 2023 PEN OAKLAND JOSEPHINE MILES AWARD\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, Best Graphic Novels of 2022\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGilbert and Jaime Hernandez are now recognized as two of the greatest cartoonists in the history of the medium ― award-winning, world-renowned, critically acclaimed. But in 1982 when the first issue of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLove and Rockets\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e came out, they (occasionally working with their brother, Mario) were two young, struggling, unknown cartoonists who were bucking the dominant comic book trend of costumed characters and adolescent content with intimate, complex, humane, novelistic stories told in comics form. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLove and Rockets\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e has appeared in a variety of formats over the years and continues to this day, but the original 50-issue run represents a milestone in comics history. Fantagraphics is celebrating and honoring the 40th anniversary of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLove and Rockets\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and the debut of the Hernandez's' first published comics with a gigantic eight-volume slipcase reprinting each issue in a facsimile edition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTheir organic body of work is available in a series of scrupulously and logically organized graphic novels, but here Fantagraphics honors the original quarterly format by presenting the comics as they appeared between 1982 and 1996, recreating not only the reading experience of tens of thousands of fans, but of a particularly fecund period in comics history when a new generation of cartoonists was exploding the idea of what comics could be. Painstakingly recreated in issue-by-issue facsimile, this boxed set includes every cover, comics page, and letter column (even advertising!) in seven hardcover volumes. An eighth volume densely collates selected essays, reviews, and profiles that appeared in the popular (and unpopular) press between 1982 and 1996, along with over 100 pages of additional, rarely-seen comics from the period by all three Brothers, plus dozens of book and magazine covers ― a virtual history of the growth of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLove and Rockets\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and the simultaneous rise of the literary comics movement of which they were exemplars and trailblazers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eProduct dimensions for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLove and Rockets: The First Fifty\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSlipcase: 9.5\"W x 11.5\"H x 9\"D\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight: 27.4 lbs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBlack-and-white and full-color illustrations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReleased November 2022\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WW NORTON","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47671532650683,"sku":"9781683965541","price":400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0548\/0444\/7419\/files\/Temp_a44ab67f-7861-43ab-a9cf-04f6c50ae142.jpg?v=1775603549","url":"https:\/\/shop.skirball.org\/products\/the-classic-love-and-rockets-40th-anniversary-slipcase-set","provider":"Audrey's Museum Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}