Mark V :: Jaime Hernandez || Love and Rockets

Penny Century Calendar Illustration (1989)

Artist: Jaime Hernandez (All)

16 Comments - 944 Views - 15 Likes

Penny Century Calendar Illustration (1989) Comic Art

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Additional Images:

Signed by Jaime

1990 L&R calendar / Photo credit: Koom K.

OA and postcard

Previous Item:
Love and Rockets #26 Cover (1988)

Next Item:
Love and Rockets #46, pg. 1 (1994)

Artwork Details

Title:	Penny Century Calendar Illustration (1989)
Artist:	Jaime Hernandez (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	Nope
Views:	944
Likes on CAF:	15 16
Favorited on CAF:	1
Comments:	16
Added to Site:	8/31/2021
Comic Art Archive:	The Complete Love & Rockets Issue: 15 Page: 129 View

Description

UPDATE: Signed by Jaime in Ann Arbor, Michigan in October 2023 (see additional image)

This stunning 11x14 Jaime Hernandez Love and Rockets illustration from 1989 depicting Penny Century, her horned billionaire husband H.R. Costigan, and their daughter Clarita pushes so many of my buttons. Full page, luscious inks, and one of my favorite Locas characters from a series that has influenced scores of comics creators over the past 40 years.

Jaime's sequential storytelling skills set the foundation for the stories he tells about his Locas characters but his splashes and full-page illustrations are pretty rare and special, outside of the covers that have hit the market. However, even though this is a full page illustration and a damn fine piece of good girl art, Jaime also tells a story through the positioning and posing of Penny relative to the rest of her family.

Published in:

- The Complete Love and Rockets, Vol. 15: Satyricon
- Fantagraphics 1990 Love and Rockets calendar
- Fantagraphics Love and Rockets postcard set

UPDATE: I discuss this piece and other Jaime Hernandez pages from my collection on an episode of the Felix Comic Art show:

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Dave W
Member Since 2006

1 - Posted on 8/31/2021

Terrific piece - those inks are amazing. Congrats and thanks for sharing!

Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

Posted on 8/31/2021

Luscious inking throughout. Very wet with how Penny looks. This calendar piece is something you wouldn't mind staring at for months ahead.

Mark V
Member Since 2021

1 - Posted on 8/31/2021

Marcus Wai wrote:

Luscious inking throughout. Very wet with how Penny looks. This calendar piece is something you wouldn't mind staring at for months ahead.

Thanks, Marcus. You always know how to get directly to the essence of a piece.

Bob Kopman
Member Since 2007

1 - Posted on 8/31/2021

This is an absolute beauty, Mark. Congrats on getting it.

Felix Lu
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 8/31/2021

Yup. Beautiful.

F M
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 9/1/2021

Splendid. The use of b&w/negative space is wonderful.

Suat Tong Ng
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 9/1/2021

A classic image - huge congrats on getting this.

Mark V
Member Since 2021

Posted on 9/1/2021

Suat Tong Ng wrote:

A classic image - huge congrats on getting this.

Thanks! I've enjoyed your comics criticism over the years and really love looking at the great collection you've assembled.

Yo Kuri
Member Since 2019

1 - Posted on 9/1/2021

Penny jumps off the page, imbued with life. Slick inks. Congrats!

frank x townsondecker
Member Since 2006

1 - Posted on 9/1/2021

Excellent!

NEBUR ADLAN
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 9/1/2021

Lovely piece my friend !

Michael McIsaac
Member Since 2020

1 - Posted on 11/24/2021

To echo what everyone else has said above, this is absolutely stunning!

Mark V
Member Since 2021

Posted on 11/24/2021

Michael McIsaac wrote:

To echo what everyone else has said above, this is absolutely stunning!

Thanks, Michael. Much appreciated!

Sam H
Member Since 2007

1 - Posted on 12/2/2021

Sweet!!

Deene Kingston
Member Since 2023

1 - Posted on 1/8/2023

A really beautiful piece. I always thought Jaime Hernandez artwork looked like Alex Toth meets Archie Comics but perhaps thats superficial. I know there are many more elements at work in his style. It must have been gutting for him to have one of his heroes (Robert Crumb) put his artwork down as 'too cute' though.

And Crumb was right about that as well. His artwork does look 'cute.' But I like it anyway and maybe that's precisely why his work appeals to so many people anyway? I still think he's a gorgeous cartoonist regardless.

Mark V
Member Since 2021

Posted on 1/8/2023

Deene Kingston wrote:

Thanks for your thoughtful comment, Deene. I remember Crumb's critique of Jaime's art and, like you, it doesn't deter me loving his art--or Crumb's, for that matter.

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