Wig Wam Bam (comics)
Wig Wam Bam is a graphic novel by Jaime Hernandez, serialized in Love and Rockets in 1990–93 and collected in 1994.
| Wig Wam Bam | |
|---|---|
| Date | 1994 |
| Publisher | Fantagraphics |
| Original publication | |
| Published in | Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics) |
| Issues | 33–39, 42 |
| Date of publication | June 1990 – August 1993 |
Synopsis
Background and publication
Love and Rockets is an alternative comic book that showcased the work of the Hernandez brothers—Mario (b. 1953), Gilbert (b. 1957), and Jaime (b. 1959).[1] Most of Jaime's work focused on a group of young women—primarily two named Maggie and Hopey—that have come to be called the Locas stories. The early ones take place in a science fiction world that Jaime was to abandon for character-centered stories in a realistic world, drawn in a slick, streamlined style combining realistic anatomy with traditional cartooning techniques.[2]
Publication
The serialization of Wig Wam Bam appeared from June 1990 to August 1993 in Love and Rockets #33–39 and 42. It first appeared in collected form in The Complete Love and Rockets, Volume 11 in 1994.[3]
Style and analysis
At 120 pages, Wig Wam Bam is the longest of the Locas stories.[4] The narrative unfolds among a series of unannounced flashbacks.[5]
References
- Hatfield 2005, p. 68; Royal 2009, p. 262.
- Wolk 2008, pp. 194–196.
- Royal 2013.
- Wolk 2008, p. 196.
- Wolk 2008, p. 196–197.
Works cited
- Hatfield, Charles (2005). "Gilbert Hernandez's Heartbreak Soup". Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature. University Press of Mississippi. pp. 68–107. ISBN 978-1-57806-719-0. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
- Royal, Derek Parker (Spring 2009). "To Be Continued...: Serialization and its Discontent in the Recent Comics of Gilbert Hernandez". International Journal of Comic Art: 262–280.
- Royal, Derek Parker (2013). "Hernandez Brothers: A Selected Bibliography". ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies. University of Florida. 7 (1). ISSN 1549-6732. Retrieved 2014-11-29.
- Wolk, Douglas (2008). Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-7867-2157-3.
Further reading