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 energyexpresslot Change image and share on social
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. Gilbert Hernandez dumpfeltgrow Change image and share on social
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 characterdayleave Change image and share on social
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. Gilbert Hernandez burncomplicatedense share on social
I've sort of dealt with the characters' lives more; particularly the women characters. Gilbert Hernandez characterdealhave Change image and share on social
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 a political person. I have two political stories, and that's it: 'Human Diastrophism' and 'Poison River.' Gilbert Hernandez challengedarkdiastrophism share on social
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 cultures, of course, but if I was going to deal with any of them, that would be No. 1 for me. Gilbert Hernandez beautifulculturedeal share on social
I think I related more literally to the early 'Spider-Man' comics from Steve Ditko because it could be upfront and direct about the problems of being a kid. He captured being a teenager so beautifully. Gilbert Hernandez beautifullycapturecomic share on social
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. Gilbert Hernandez cousinethnicallyfelt share on social
