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Gilbert Hernandez, a pioneering American artist and cartoonist, revolutionized the world of alternative comics with his groundbreaking series "Love and Rockets." His richly drawn characters and poignant storytelling explored themes of identity, culture, and sexuality, earning him acclaim as one of the medium's most innovative and influential creators.
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"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."

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

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

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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

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