{"id":4275,"date":"2009-08-01T10:48:47","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T14:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4275"},"modified":"2009-08-01T10:50:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T14:50:36","slug":"locas-locos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/locas-locos","title":{"rendered":"Locas & Locos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anyone who’s read Jaime Hernandez’s Locas<\/a>\"\" comics in Love & Rockets<\/a> knows that the men take a back seat to the women in the cast. Ray D. is pretty much the only male character who jumps to mind when I try to recall men who demonstrate even half the depth of Jaime’s women.<\/p>\n

Still, I’ve been hoping for a while now<\/a> to compliment my three Jaime Hernandez drawings of Maggie & Hopey, Terry Downe and Penny Century with a trio of drawings of Jaime’s guys.<\/p>\n

Comic-Con International in San Diego represents the best opportunity to do this, since Jaime and his brother Gilbert bring binders of drawings to sell at their signing sessions. But I haven’t been out to the Con since 2005; my wife didn’t have a great time when I dragged her to it that year, although now that she learned Ray Bradbury was in attendance<\/a> at this past Con, she’s full of regret. So maybe next year. I guess I won’t ask her to wear the Princess Leia costume<\/a> this time. (No, that’s not her.)<\/p>\n

It’s my good fortune to have an all-around great pal who is obligated to cover the Con. I asked my Comics Reporter<\/a> pal Tom to keep an eye out when Jaime was doing his signing\/drawing sale sessions. A few days after the Con, I received a UPS package that looked like it was mauled by the company’s new cadre of package-sorting grizzly bears.<\/p>\n

Tom, expecting this sort of abuse, did a fantastic job with the internal packaging, so I’m now the proud owner of three Jaime drawings of Rand Race, Doyle, and the beaten-down Ray Dominguez! Time to trim (slightly) and frame ’em!<\/p>\n

I’ve posted all six of my Jaime scans to flickr<\/a>, so just click through Penny Century for the whole set!<\/p>\n

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Anyone who’s read Jaime Hernandez’s Locas comics in Love & Rockets knows that the men take a back seat to the women in the cast. Ray D. is pretty much the only male character who jumps to mind when I try to recall men who demonstrate even half the depth of Jaime’s women. Still, I’ve … <\/p>\n

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