40th Anniversary of Love and Rockets with authors Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez
Time: 11/5 from 5-6pm
Where: Bart’s Books, 302 W Matilija, Ojai
Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez are now recognized as two of the greatest cartoonists in the history of the medium — award-winning, world-renowned, critically acclaimed.
Love and Rockets 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. Over the course of L&R’s multi-decade run, its characters have aged in real time, lending these stories a depth and weight that few literary works achieve.
A selection of their graphic novels will be available for purchase at the book signing event and Bart’s will be selling pre-orders of the special 40th anniversary box set re-releasing the first 50 issues.
“We are really thrilled to host Gilbert & Jaime here at Bart’s. A lot of our booksellers and regular customers are longtime fans of the Hernandez brothers, but even if you aren’t someone who typically reads comics or graphic novels, you can appreciate their work as a huge part of our creative legacy here in Ventura County. Oxnard is the basis for their fictional town of Huerta and you can feel the Oxnard community infusing their stories.” says event organizer Emma Bailey. “We know this is going to be a packed event so we are inviting people to RSVP to guarantee their spot in our courtyard.”