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.
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.