I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with my life. I always wanted to pursue either music or comics, so when the opportunity came from comics publisher Fantagraphics for my brothers Jaime and Mario and I to make a comic book together, we jumped at the chance: "Let's just do it and see what happens." Really, we weren't sure where we were going to go with it. We thought our work was good enough to be out there, but we didn't know that the response was going to be pretty good, pretty quick.
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 al… - Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
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 al…
- Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
I used to get people criticizing me for drawing so many women with gorgeous idealized bodies, but I pointed out that I draw a lot of men with muscula… - Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
I used to get people criticizing me for drawing so many women with gorgeous idealized bodies, but I pointed out that I draw a lot of men with muscula…
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 go… - Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
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 go…
I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite,… - Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite,…
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… - Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
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…
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 … - Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
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 …
I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with my life. I always wanted to pursue either music or comics, so when the opportunity came from comics publisher … - Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with my life. I always wanted to pursue either music or comics, so when the opportunity came from comics publisher …
I get to draw what I like to draw, basically people hangin' around, and write very humanistic kinds of situations and characters. But I do also like … - Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
I get to draw what I like to draw, basically people hangin' around, and write very humanistic kinds of situations and characters. But I do also like …
It takes time to learn to draw. It takes years, not a few weeks. - Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
It takes time to learn to draw. It takes years, not a few weeks.
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