{"product_id":"love-and-rockets-hc-the-sketchbooks-mr","title":"LOVE AND ROCKETS HC THE SKETCHBOOKS (MR)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSPECIAL ORDER ITEM\u003c\/strong\u003e — This item is not stocked in our store. It is ordered in from our distributor after you purchase it, and additional shipping is required.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBoth Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez developed their skills as artists in public, in the pages of Love and Rockets, and as quickly as any artists ever have. The first issue showed two promising young tyros; by the fourth, both brothers were clearly among the foremost cartoonists of their generation. But not all of that development took place on the main stage of their shared magazine. They built up to their 1981 self-published debut with years of experiments, fan art, zine illustrations, early short comics, and gig posters, and continued to work out in personal sketchbooks after establishing themselves as the preeminent cartoonists they became. Fantagraphics published two volumes of this nascent or private drawing in 1989 and 1992. Now, this deluxe hardcover collects the work from these two volumes with other rarely-seen artwork for a new generation of admirers. It's presented as a dual-side\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(W\/A\/CA) Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/runeworkscomics.myshopify.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/902f9e0b-9bf0-48b2-a5cd-5ebcf07e6b94_4f0ce7c1-dad6-4447-b796-a88faeebe946.png?v=1773693174\u0026amp;width=750\"\u003e","brand":"Lunar \/ Universal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54366241456496,"sku":"0224FB362","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/2318\/6800\/files\/0224FB362.jpg?v=1790306031","url":"https:\/\/runeworkscomics.com\/products\/love-and-rockets-hc-the-sketchbooks-mr","provider":"RUNE WORKS COMICS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}