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Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez started out making comics in the late 1970s/early 1980s. They developed traction in their cult status series' of comics starting with Heart Break Soup. Love and Rockets -oddly coincidentally the same name of the Goth band started by Bauhaus member Daniel Ash- is a compendium of characters -mainly female- who go about their lives living on a kind of punk fringe.
The Hernandez brothers managed to capture the heart and soul of punk in a graphic sense, along with perhaps Raymond Pettibon and Charles Burns. Their cast of characters, Hopey, Maggie and others portray a sub-culture (punk, gay/lesbian, latino) that was under-represented in the Reagan Era. Their comics contained stuff normally seen today as matter-of-fact but for back then was truly ground breaking.
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