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...older brother Mario--are back with all new installments. When the series started out, most underground comics were political satires and science-fiction fantasies, but Love and Rockets told complex stories about real people, bringing a literary narrative form to the comic-book frame. "I couldn't just write a novel, because my work doesn't work well without the pictures," says Jaime, 41. "And I couldn't just do portraits or illustrations, because I need the words to go with...
Although they usually work side by side, the brothers write and draw the individual stories that make up Love and Rockets separately. Each book typically contains at least two tales. In Gilbert's, the main characters all have some connection to the fictional border town of Palomar; his drawings display a warm voluptuousness clearly influenced by the superhero comics of the '60s that the brothers read as boys. Jaime's plots center on Maggie Chascarrillo, a dreamy woman who drifts in and out of relationships among Los Angeles' grownup punk rockers; his lines and compositions are slim and elegant, though...
...produce--it was completed in 1997--each new advance in computer software became another potential story device. "I became sort of dependent on the industry," jokes Amerika, who is also the author of two novels printed on paper. "That's unusual for a writer, because if you just write on paper the 'technology' is pretty stable...
Restraint, though, does not come naturally to the 43-year-old author. She says she has 50 to 100 unfinished books sitting around--some of them 120,000-word drafts, others a few chapters. She had a "terrible" time selling Samurai, and Plan B was to write "much more commercial things--not much point in finishing those." Not after Samurai, which has been sold to more than a dozen countries and optioned for the movies...
...John Ashcroft cover last month with Michael Duffy, I thought she might take a well-deserved rest. But three weeks ago, she was in my office, urging me to do a cover on human cloning as soon as possible. I not only agreed but also asked Nancy to write it, since she has an extraordinary talent for exploring topics where ethics, religion, politics and science intersect. This is an ideal story for TIME--and just the kind of story I'm confident will fascinate...