Gilbert Hernandez Quotes

• We thought everybody read comics. We didn’t know we were weird. We didn’t know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.

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• I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was ethnically mixed.

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• We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.

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• My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.

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• It wasn’t until school that we realised that we were abnormal.

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• I’ve sort of dealt with the characters’ lives more; particularly the women characters.

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• Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!

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• Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.

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• We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country.

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Gilbert Hernandez (9)

Birth:	1st February, 1957
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Cartoonist, Illustrator, Novelist

About

Gilbert Hernandez was born in Oxnard, California, USA. He is an American cartoonist, illustrator, and graphic novelist. He is best known for his Palomar/Heartbreak Soup stories in Love and Rockets, an alternative comic book he shared with his brothers Jaime and Mario. He won Kirby Award for Best Black & White Series for Love & Rockets. He won Harvey Award for Best Writer for Love & Rockets. He has written several graphic novels include: Palomar, Marble Season, Julio's Day, Maria M., Bumperhead, Human Diastrophism, High Soft Lisp, Poison River, Love and Rockets X, Chance in Hell, and Blood of Palomar.

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