Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero Quotes
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.
If a good cartoonist can make a living making his comics, he'll continue to do that; the lesser insincere cartoonist that gets a lot of press will fall by the wayside eventually.
I'm working so much I don't see the work of many young cartoonists so it's hard for me to tell which are my favourites. Maybe when I get to stick my head out of the sand I'll be able to let you know.
When you're young you don't know anything, but you have lot of energy to express yourself. So you make a lot of mistakes and you stumble, but you also get a lot of truth from within.
I've dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see something happen.
I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season', although that wasn't my intention. It's also a world without adults.
I'm basically stubborn. If anyone disapproved of my being influenced by comics, I simply ignored them.
Once we got going on the Fantagraphics version of Love and Rockets, our encouragement was constant. People wanted us to do more, do more. Thirty years later, here we are.
Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell.
I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.
In the old days, I just could not leave characters alone. Now I just try to keep the ones that still have something in the way of stories to tell.
