Gilberto Hernandez 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.

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

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

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.

It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal.

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.

You must always remember, because the mediocre mind you encounter may be your own.

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.

Anyone could identify with the human aspect of the characters.

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.

It takes time to learn to draw. It takes years, not a few weeks.

I've seen that most people change as they get older.

Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell.

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 grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

I know what a good movie is.

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.