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24 quotes by Gilbert Hernandez

Gilberto Hernández (/hiːlˈbɛərtoʊ/ heel-BAIR-toh; Spanish pronunciation: [xilˈβerto]; born February 1, 1957), usually credited as Gilbert Hernandez and also by the nickname Beto (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbeto]), is an American cartoonist. 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.
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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... →

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It wasn't until I started to do 'Poison River' that the readership started falling. 'Poison River' started out very slowly and... →

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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.

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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... →

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I felt like challenging myself and challenging my readers with something darker and heavier. I don't know how to explain it, because I'm not... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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I happen to think Latinas, Latin women, are the most beautiful women in the world. So that's what I'm going to draw. I love women from all... →

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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 know what a good movie is.

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

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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.

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