New Love

In the mid-1990s, Gilbert Hernandez turned his singular cartooning talents to New Love, a six-issue series from Fantagraphics. This brief but memorable run explores the tangled romantic and familial lives of characters like Venus, Fritz, Petra, David and Joey Vasquez, and Enrique Escobar, all rendered with Hernandez’s signature blend of warmth and psychological depth. A vital chapter in his broader body of work, it captures the era’s indie-comics fascination with nuanced human relationships.