Gilbert Hernandez Quotes

"Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!"
- Gilbert Hernandez
(Related: Space)

"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
(Related: African, Country, Court)

"It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal."
- Gilbert Hernandez
(Related: School)

"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
(Related: Amusement)

"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
(Related: Mother, Father, Being, Eyes, Kids, Minority, Woman, World)

"My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace."
- Gilbert Hernandez

"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."
- Gilbert Hernandez
(Related: Kids, Living, Relatives, School, World)

"I've sort of dealt with the characters' lives more; particularly the women characters."
- Gilbert Hernandez
(Related: Women)