Gilbert Hernandez

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

— Gilbert Hernandez

#comic #comic book #dennis #done #ever

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

— Gilbert Hernandez

#dealt #i #lives #more #particularly

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

— Gilbert Hernandez

#realised #school #until #were

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

— Gilbert Hernandez

#biggest #comics #dennis #influences #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. ↗

— Gilbert Hernandez

#died #eyes #father #filtered #her

We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement. ↗

— Gilbert Hernandez

#comics #doing #experiences #grew #liked

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. ↗

— Gilbert Hernandez

#comics #everybody #know #listening #music

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. ↗

— Gilbert Hernandez

#against #allowed #another #country #court