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"To me, Gilbert is the Picasso of the
group; he can do anything, and has all these ideas that just
come out of nowhere." Gilbert (pronounced heel-bear-toe) Hernandez (1957 - ) was raised in Oxnard, Southern California with his other four brothers and one sister. His father was a Mexican immigrant, married to a Texan from a family with deep Mexican roots. In her youth, his mother had collected comic books and that passion was passed on to her children. "It was nostalgic for her, I guess. So comics were always normal to us, it was an everyday thing. It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal," commented Gilbert. "I always felt that I was living in two worlds. One was the little mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and even kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was pretty ethnically mixed." Raised on a diet of pop culture, comics, science fiction and monster movies, all the family were drawing comics from an early age. However, for Gilbert and Jamie, that childhood passion never left them, even when punk rock gripped their lives in the late 1970's. At the urging of elder brother Mario, Jamie and Gilbert self-published the first issue of Love & Rockets, which was quickly picked up by then fledgling comic publisher, Fantagraphics, in 1982 and continues to this day. Interviews: Resources: Reviews: |
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"Beyond impressive. The cumulative power of the Palomar saga
is arguably that of the most substantive single work the comics medium has
yet produced." "With Heartbreak Soup I had
an agenda of sorts. I'm trying to get non-Latinos, for lack of
a better word, to identify with Latinos as human beings. Simple
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"It was my version of a Maggie and Hopey story. I thought,
Well, I have the same punk rock n' roll background, and I've
never used it in a comic. Then that became dark and twisted,
too. Something was going on with me and I don't really know where
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Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories
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Luba In America