Wigwam Bam

by Jaime Hernández

Book Overview

Jaime's definitive statement on post-punk culture. Maggie, Hopey, and the rest of Las Locas prowl Los Angeles, the East Coast, and parts in between trying to recapture the carefree spirit of those early days a decade ago.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560971207
• ISBN13: 9781560971207
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

One of the best

Wigwam Bam is a change of pace in the Love and Rockets saga. Hopey and Maggie are stranded somewhere out East after H.R. Costigan kicked them out of his mansion. Meanwhile, they've fallen in with an arty, gay crowd. Early into the book, Maggie and Hopey split up. And so, much of Wigwam Bam is really all about Hopey. There is definitely a greater sense of the surreal in this collection than there have been in others. One of the reasons, I think, is that Hopey and Maggie are both sort of out of their element in this collection. There's a sense of weirdness and dislocation that wasn't present in earlier collections. Especially in the beginning, several characters bring up the fact that Hopey and Maggie are from California, and in the case of Maggie, that they are Mexican. In this collection, Hernandez raises questions of ethnicity that he hadn't before.Wigwam Bam definitely isn't as lighthearted as some of the other collections. Hopey rapidly falls in over her head. One wonders whether this has something to do with the fact that she has lost Maggie, seemingly for good. And the collection does end on a dark note. In this collection the characters in it are tested and a lot of the things they counted as sure things are lost.

Wigwam Bam, probably the best Love and Rockets Book ever

Wigwam Bam has to be Jaime Hernandez' most compelling comic book ever. It mainly focus on Hopey and the residents of Hoppers, as Maggie (Hopey's girlfriend) leaves Hopey after a snooty party. From then on Maggie doesn't turn up again. In wigwam Bam, we find out more about Hopey and that she actually does love Maggie and has a heart. We also get to delve deeper into Isobel's twisted psyche as she goes and looks for Maggie and Hopey. I honestly admit that I had never had such an emotional involvement with any comic characters as I did with Wigwam Bam. Even if you haven't read the other volumes of the Love and Rockets series, Wigwam Bam is most definately worth a look.