Music for Mechanics

Music for Mechanics
Cover of Music for Mechanics
Publication information
Publisher	Fantagraphics
Genre	Alternative comics
Publication date	October 1985
Creative team
Writer(s)	Los Bros Hernandez
Artist(s)	Los Bros Hernandez

Music for Mechanics is the first album of the American comics series Love and Rockets written and drawn by Los Bros Hernandez and published in 1985.

The cover of the compilation is by Jaime Hernandez and the preface by Carter Scholz.

Contents

These first stories, dated 1981-1985, are very science-fiction oriented, adding monsters and dinosaurs and extra-terrestrials to the first latino themes, and some stories and themes cannot be considered canon with the universes developed by the brothers in later books.

No.	Title	Author	Pages	Comments
1.	Mechan-X	Jaime Hernandez	8	Signed "Izzy Ruebens"; introducing characters Maggie and Hopey
2.	Locas Tambien	Jaime	4
3.	How to Kill a	Jaime	4	Signed "Isabel Ruebens"; not listed in the "Contents" of the book
4.	BEM	Gilbert Hernandez	40	5 parts; introducing character Luba)
5.	Barrio Huerta	Jaime	1
6.	Penny Century, You're Fired	Jaime	1
7.	Music for Monsters I	Gilbert	6
8.	Mecanicos	Jaime	6
9.	Mechanics	Jaime	41	Introducing wrestling
10.	Radio Zero	Gilbert	10
11.	Music for Monsters II	Gilbert	4
12.	Somewhere in California	Mario Hernandez	10
13.	A Little Story	Gilbert	6	Village of Palomar first appearance, not cited though
	Cover gallery	Los Bros Hernandez	4

Chronology

Next album : Chelo’s Burden.