Love and Rockets is in the air this Valentines Day as SEQUENTIAL, the iPad graphic novel app has announced that it is releasing titles by legendary art comics and graphic novel publisher Fantagraphics Books, including Jaime Hernandez’s legendary Love and Rockets.The first tranche of titles, released on Valentine’s Day, includes essential work from Fantagraphics flagship title Love & Rockets in the form of Jaime Hernandez’s seminal LOCAS series, which tells the tales of Maggie and Hopey and a unique cast of characters.

Fantagraphics associate publisher Eric Reynolds said, “SEQUENTIAL’s efforts to curate a quality selection of non-mainstream digital comics and graphic novels is something that we can get behind; we’re delighted to have our titles available on their app.”

Released in August 2013, SEQUENTIAL is focused on book format art comics and literary graphic novels. It strongly rejects mainstream superhero fare and has been offering titles from UK publishers Jonathan Cape, Knockabout, Myriad Editions, SelfMadeHero and Blank Slate Books. It has recently started adding major US-based graphic novel publishers to its list.

SEQUENTIAL founder Russell Willis said, “We are really thrilled to be able to add Fantagraphics titles to the app. When we started out we were driven by a vision of including the best work in the world, untainted by superheroes. To that end we have been courting Fantagraphics for quite a while, and having their comics and graphic novels available on SEQUENTIAL makes our vision a reality. We are the go-to app for the sophisticated graphic novel and comics reader.”

The first tranche of titles includes Locas #1, #2 and #3 (Maggie the Mechanic, The Girl from H.O.P.P.E.R.S. and Perla La Loca) by Jaime Hernandez, Hip Hop Family Tree by Ed Piskor, The Left Bank Gang and I Killed Adolf Hitler by Jason, and TEOTFW by Charles Forsman. Work by Gilbert Hernandez and other Fantagraphics creators will follow shortly.

In addition the app features the work of Alan Moore, Brian Bolland, David Lloyd, Eddie Campbell, Ellen Lindner, Hunt Emerson, Isabel Greenberg, Nick Abadzis, Rutu Modan, Winshluss and many, many more.