American - Artist | February 1, 1957 -
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.
Gilbert Hernandez
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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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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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I've sort of dealt with the characters' lives more; particularly the women characters.
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It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal.
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My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.
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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 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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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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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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Reviewers and critics can be overly cynical. If something the least bit sentimental comes up, they'll often start flying off the handle. But I'm like, 'Wait a minute, you've had those times in your life. Everybody has.'
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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.
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