Locas: The Maggie and Hopey Stories

Available from Fantagraphics when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

One of the great American novels of the last 40+ years, graphic or otherwise. Jaime Hernandez is one of the most humane, graceful, and imaginatively inexhaustible artists in American popular culture. Locas tells the story of Maggie Chascarrillo, a bisexual, Mexican-American woman attempting to define herself in a community rife with class, race, and gender issues. Maggie's story begins in the early-1980s Southern California rock scene, when it was shifting from the excesses of the 1970s to the g