Gilbert Hernandez
Gilbert Hernandez
Gilberto Hernández, usually credited as Gilbert Hernandez and also by the nickname Beto, 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth1 February 1957
CountryUnited States of America
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The response to the characterizations in the book was immediate. People would say, We love these characters. How long have you been doing them?
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Jaime is doing the Hispanics living in the United States and dealing with life that way, and I'm doing stories about back home, basically.
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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 a political person. I have two political stories, and that's it: 'Human Diastrophism' and 'Poison River.'
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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.