Wig Wam Bam is a graphic novel by Jaime Hernandez, serialized in Love and Rockets in 1990âÂÂ93 and collected in 1994.
Love and Rockets is an alternative comic book that showcased the work of the Hernandez brothersâÂÂMario (b. 1953), Gilbert (b. 1957), and Jaime (b. 1959). Most of Jaime's work focused on a group of young womenâÂÂprimarily two named Maggie and HopeyâÂÂthat have come to be called the Locas stories. The early ones take place in a science fiction world that Jaime was to abandon for character-centered stories in a realistic world, drawn in a slick, streamlined style combining realistic anatomy with traditional cartooning techniques.
The serialization of Wig Wam Bam appeared from June 1990 to August 1993 in Love and Rockets 33âÂÂ39 and 42. It first appeared in collected form in The Complete Love and Rockets, Volume 11 in 1994.
At 120 pages, Wig Wam Bam is the longest of the Locas stories. The narrative unfolds among a series of unannounced flashbacks.