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.

More Quotes by Gilbert Hernandez

Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!

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.

I've sort of dealt with the characters' lives more; particularly the women characters.

It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal.

My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.

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.