"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
About this Quote
This quote by Gilbert Hernandez talks with the evolution of comics and exactly how they have been made use of to inform stories. Hernandez is recommending that he and also his peers grew out of the standard superhero comics, yet still had an affinity for the tool. Because of this, they began to develop their own stories, based on their very own experiences, as a type of entertainment. This is a testimony to the power of comics and also how they can be utilized to tell stories that are both entertaining as well as purposeful. It also talks to the imagination of Hernandez and his peers, as they were able to take their very own experiences and transform them right into stories that can be enjoyed by others. This quote is a tip of the power of comics and also just how they can be utilized to inform tales that are both entertaining and purposeful.
This quote is written / told by Gilbert Hernandez somewhere between February 1, 1957 and today. He/she was a famous Artist from USA.
The author also have 8 other quotes.
"I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid"
"I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical"
"If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little bit out of the ordinary. I've done my superhero gig"
"I haven't done a great deal of it but this was a chance to do more and bring it to that part of the business and even more so, but the fact that it was a black superhero was really the catalyst to me"
"It's something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others"
"I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership"
"The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it's not that he's super that is his focus; it's that he's a man. He's very human. That's his greatest strength and his greatest weakness"
"I made a decision not to work out because I'm lazy and also, the character is not a superhero. I didn't want him to be a buff guy with Jackie Chan moves because the point is he's smarter than your average Joe"
