1. As a teen back in the 1980s, I thought "Love & Rockets" was harbinger of a big change in culture: soon everything would be multicultural
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2. The world depicted in "Love & Rockets" felt like world I saw around me in Toronto: an immigrant world of the present, not of nostalgia
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3. Immigrant culture was usually represented in a haze of nostalgia, the sepia-linoleum World of Our Fathers. Not so in "Love & Rockets"
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4. The immigrants kids in "Love and Rockets" listened to punk and metal, wrestled with sexual identity -- just like real life.
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5. I was right in my appreciation of what Jaime & Gilbert Hernandez were doing but wrong in assuming that it would be widely influential.
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6. To be sure, Love and Rockets has changed inflection of Chicano literature in USA: Junot Díaz being prime example.
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7. But it's still the case that if you look at Hollywood, TV & books, the casual taken-for-granted multiculturalism of L&R is still radical
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8. There are a whole host of reasons why this might be so -- Hollywood's caution in casting, narrow sociological origins of most writers.
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9. But I want to open the floor to other possibilities. Why after 30 years of Love & Rockets, why hasn't the culture caught up?
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@SethLSanders Yeah -- that's a fair explanation. Means a wide swath of contemporary experience gets under-represented.
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