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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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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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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We would make a mistake if we were trying to write women, but we're not. We're just trying to write people, and they happen to be women.
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We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.
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For me, the reason to make the movie is that if people like the comic, then people would like the movie if it was well made. There are good movies for them, but very few. And I mean that in a true sense. If they love your story for freaking 30 years, then they can do a movie about it.
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Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell.
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My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.
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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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I've sort of dealt with the characters' lives more; particularly the women characters.
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I've dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see something happen.
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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, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.
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We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country.
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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 also a world without adults.
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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.