Reviewers and critics can be overly cynical. If something the least bit sentimental comes up, they'll often start flying off the handle. But I'm like, 'Wait a minute, you've had those times in your life. Everybody has. Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero More Quotes by Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero More Quotes From Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero It wasn't until I started to do 'Poison River' that the readership started falling. 'Poison River' started out very slowly and simply, but then it got really dense and complicated. I don't know, I think the readers just got fed up or burned out. They started dropping off. Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero rivers fall thinking 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. Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero express-yourself energy mistake I've dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see something happen. Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero hollywood film cartoon If a good cartoonist can make a living making his comics, he'll continue to do that; the lesser insincere cartoonist that gets a lot of press will fall by the wayside eventually. Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero cartoonist ifs fall I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season', although that wasn't my intention. It's also a world without adults. Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero guy girl boys I think I related more literally to the early 'Spider-Man' comics from Steve Ditko because it could be upfront and direct about the problems of being a kid. He captured being a teenager so beautifully. Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero teenager men kids 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. Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero childhood opposites discovery I used to get people criticizing me for drawing so many women with gorgeous idealized bodies, but I pointed out that I draw a lot of men with muscular bodies, washboard abs, and enormous wangs, and they never got criticized. So those criticisms have stopped. Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero drawing men people I grew up when comics were only sold in food markets and news stands, so the direct market is vital to me. The best way to make it stronger is if everybody buys my comics in multiple copies before they buy any others. Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero stronger news way I felt like challenging myself and challenging my readers with something darker and heavier. I don't know how to explain it, because I'm not a political person. I have two political stories, and that's it: 'Human Diastrophism' and 'Poison River'. Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero political rivers two For me, the reason to make the movie is that if people like the comic, then people would like the movie if it was well made. There are good movies for them, but very few. And I mean that in a true sense. If they love your story for freaking 30 years, then they can do a movie about it. Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero love-you mean years Anyone could identify with the human aspect of the characters. Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero character Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell. Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero stories mind character My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace. Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero influence artist two In the old days, I just could not leave characters alone. Now I just try to keep the ones that still have something in the way of stories to tell. Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero stories trying character Once we got going on the Fantagraphics version of Love and Rockets, our encouragement was constant. People wanted us to do more, do more. Thirty years later, here we are. Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero encouragement people I know what a good movie is. Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero good-movie knows I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove. Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero being-real insecure feelings 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. Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero mother father kids I notice a lot of younger artists have difficulty telling stories. They might have short stories where they express themselves well, but they don't really know how to tell stories with characters. That craft just passed them by. Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero difficulty artist character
