Love and Rockets #13

(September 1985)

Letters (Table of Contents: 1)

letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

Gary Groth (credited)

Letters

typeset

Synopsis

Contains an editorial explaining the price hike.

Indexer Notes

Letters from Martha and Dan; Charles Van Meter; Michelle J. Cioeta

Continues in the back of the book.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Locas / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Jaime Hernandez (signed as Jaime "King of the Hustle" Hernandez)

Pencils

Jaime Hernandez (signed as Jaime "King of the Hustle" Hernandez)

Inks

Jaime Hernandez (signed as Jaime "King of the Hustle" Hernandez)

Letters

Jaime Hernandez (signed as Jaime "King of the Hustle" Hernandez)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hi! I'm Roy Cowboy! And I'd like you to meet six friends of mine!

Genre

drama

Characters

Maggie [Margarita Luisa Chascarrillo]; Hopey [Esperanza Leticia Glass]; Izzy [Isabel Maria Ortiz Ruebens]; Daffy [Daphne Matsumoto]; Terry [Theresa Leeanne Downe]; Penny Century [Beatriz Garcia]; Roy Cowboy; Julie Wree; Chucho

Synopsis

Maggie and Hopey hit the thrift stores, then trail around town trying to find a new place to live. Terry is cold on the idea of putting Maggie up. Maggie heads back to Izzy's to get ready for work, and hears from Izzy how Hopey took the (misreported) news of Maggie's death in Chepan.

Reprints

• in Love & Rockets (Titan, 1987 series) #[nn] (June 1987)
• in The Complete Love & Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #5 - House of Raging Women (September 1988)
• in The Lost Women and Other Stories (Fantagraphics, 1988 series) (May 1988)
• in Locas (Fantagraphics, 2004 series) #[nn] (September 2004)
• in Locas (Ediciones La Cúpula, 2006 series) #1 (Mayo 2006)
• in Love and Rockets Library (Fantagraphics, 2007 series) #[1] - Maggie the Mechanic (January 2007)

Boys Will Be Boys (Table of Contents: 3)

Palomar / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Gilbert Hernandez (signed as Gilbert "Dr Love" Hernandez)

Pencils

Gilbert Hernandez (signed as Gilbert "Dr Love" Hernandez)

Inks

Gilbert Hernandez (signed as Gilbert "Dr Love" Hernandez)

Letters

Gilbert Hernandez (signed as Gilbert "Dr Love" Hernandez)

Genre

drama; humor

Characters

Heraclio; Pepo; Anacleto; Luba; Chelo; Carmen; Tonantzin Villaseñor; Tiburcia; Diana Villaseñor

Synopsis

Heraclio and Pepo try to fix newcomer Anacleto up with one of the women of Palomar.

Reprints

• in Heartbreak Soup (Titan, 1987 series) #[2] - Duck Feet (1988)
• in The Complete Love & Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #5 - House of Raging Women (September 1988)
• in Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories (Fantagraphics, 2003 series) (August 2003)
• in Palomar (Ediciones La Cúpula, 2005 series) #1 (Agosto 2005)
• in Love and Rockets Library (Fantagraphics, 2007 series) #[2] - Heartbreak Soup (January 2007)

Holy Goodnight!...It's A Super-Special All-New 8-Page Bonus Lloyd Llewellyn Preview (Table of Contents: 4)

Lloyd Llewellyn / character profile / 1 page (report information)

Script

Daniel Clowes (credited)

Pencils

Daniel Clowes (credited)

Inks

Daniel Clowes (credited)

Letters

Daniel Clowes (credited)

Characters

Lloyd Llewellyn; Ernie Hoyle; Red Hoerring

Synopsis

Introduction to the characters and the story that follows.

Indexer Notes

This and the following two sequences are not included in the second printing.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Lloyd Llewellyn / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Daniel Clowes (signed)

Pencils

Daniel Clowes (signed)

Inks

Daniel Clowes (signed)

Letters

Daniel Clowes (signed)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The Last Time I Saw Irving

Genre

humor

Characters

Lloyd Llewellyn; Ernie Hoyle; Fatima; Irving Melvin; Albert Melvin

Synopsis

Irving Melvin plays his last practical joke.

Reprints

• in The Manly World of Lloyd Llewellyn: A Golden Treasury of His Complete Works (Fantagraphics, 1994 series) (May 1994)

Indexer Notes

First appearance of Lloyd Llewellyn

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

La Toña (Table of Contents: 7)

Locas / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Jaime Hernandez (signed as Jaime)

Pencils

Jaime Hernandez (signed as Jaime)

Inks

Jaime Hernandez (signed as Jaime)

Letters

Jaime Hernandez (signed as Jaime)

Genre

drama

Characters

Rena Titañon; Tse Tse; Chief

Reprints

• in Love & Rockets (Titan, 1987 series) #[nn] (June 1987)
• in The Complete Love & Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #5 - House of Raging Women (September 1988)
• in The Lost Women and Other Stories (Fantagraphics, 1988 series) (May 1988)
• in Locas (Ediciones La Cúpula, 2006 series) #1 (Mayo 2006)
• in Love and Rockets Library (Fantagraphics, 2007 series) #[3] - The Girl from H.O.P.P.E.R.S. (July 2007)

Young Locas (Table of Contents: 8)

Locas / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Jaime Hernandez (signed as Jaime "Hit Man" Hernandez)

Pencils

Jaime Hernandez (signed as Jaime "Hit Man" Hernandez)

Inks

Jaime Hernandez (signed as Jaime "Hit Man" Hernandez)

Letters

Jaime Hernandez (signed as Jaime "Hit Man" Hernandez)

Genre

drama

Characters

Maggie [Margarita Luisa Chascarrillo]; Letty Chavez; Harvey; Louis; Izzy [Isabel Ortiz Ruebens]; Hopey [Esperanza Leticia Glass]

Synopsis

Maggie is planning on leaving Sal's Garage because her job there is causing her to lose her friends. She forgets all about it when Harvey introduces her to her first prosolar job.

Reprints

• in Love & Rockets (Titan, 1987 series) #[nn] (June 1987)
• in The Complete Love & Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #5 - House of Raging Women (September 1988)
• in The Lost Women and Other Stories (Fantagraphics, 1988 series) (May 1988)
• in Locas (Fantagraphics, 2004 series) #[nn] (September 2004)
• in Locas (Ediciones La Cúpula, 2006 series) #1 (Mayo 2006)
• in Love and Rockets Library (Fantagraphics, 2007 series) #[1] - Maggie the Mechanic (January 2007)

An American in Palomar (Table of Contents: 9)

Palomar / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Gilbert Hernandez (signed as Beto)

Pencils

Gilbert Hernandez (signed as Beto)

Inks

Gilbert Hernandez (signed as Beto)

Letters

Gilbert Hernandez (signed as Beto)

Genre

drama

Characters

Howard Miller; Tonantzin; Carmen; Chelo; Luba; Diana; Theo

Synopsis

Howard Miller walks the streets of Palomar photographing its citizens. He has an encounter with Tonantzin, who gets the idea he can help her get noticed by Hollywood. When Theo introduces Miller to some of the ruins outside town, Miller gets lost in one of them and has an hallucinatory experience. He returns home in a shaken frame of mind and finds Tonantzin waiting for him.

Reprints

• in Heartbreak Soup (Titan, 1987 series) #[2] - Duck Feet (1988)
• in The Complete Love & Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #5 - House of Raging Women (September 1988)
• in The Reticent Heart and Other Stories (Fantagraphics, 1988 series) (May 1988)
• in Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories (Fantagraphics, 2003 series) (August 2003)
• in Palomar (Ediciones La Cúpula, 2005 series) #1 (Agosto 2005)
• in Love and Rockets Library (Fantagraphics, 2007 series) #[2] - Heartbreak Soup (January 2007)

Keywords

soap opera

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11)

letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Pencils

Jaime Hernandez

Inks

Jaime Hernandez

Letters

typeset

Synopsis

Letters Page continued from inside front cover, with an illo from Mechanics. Contains a joint letter from Adam Philips and Kurt Busiek. Also a mention of next issues content and a subscription form.

Indexer Notes

Letters from Joseph A. Curtis; David Koenigberg; David Smay; Adam Philips & Kurt Busiek; Matthew-Louis M. Levin; Billy Ford; Kate Coffee

Fantagraphics Books Brings You the All-Time Greats in the Comics Field! (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)