Gilbert Hernandez Quotes

Gilbert Hernandez — American Artist born on February 01, 1957,

Gilberto Hernández , usually credited as Gilbert Hernandez and also by the nickname Beto (Spanish pronunciation: ), 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... (wikipedia)

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.

It wasn't until I started to do 'Poison River' that the readership started falling. 'Poison River' started out very slowly and simply, but then it got really dense and complicated. I don't know, I think the readers just got fed up or burned out. They started dropping off.

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.

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.

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.

Gilbert Hernandez Quotes

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