Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez´s Love & Rockets is the alternative comics success story of the 80´s and 90´s. If the publication of Zap #1 in 1967 "officially" marks the beginning of underground comix, the publication of Love & Rockets #1 in 1982 could be said to "officially" mark the beginning of the ´80´s comics renaissance clumsily called alternative comics. Both Gilbert and Jaime credit the punk rock explosion of the late ´70´s with broadening their horizons and leading them to reflect their personal experience in their comics.