Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero Quotes & Sayings

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

I'm basically stubborn. If anyone disapproved of my being influenced by comics, I simply ignored them. — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

I like doing whatever interests me. It's a challenge for me to try to make good comics out of any genre I tackle. I trust my instincts in getting me through the more difficult genres for modern readers, like violent crime or horror stories. — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

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

I get to draw what I like to draw, basically people hangin' around, and write very humanistic kinds of situations and characters. But I do also like to draw adventure stories - more in terms of drawing them than writing them - and letting my imagination go wild. — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

I've always been interested in the way males seem to need to start clubs, or cults, to keep girls out until they need them for sex. It comes from some weird immature tribal crap, I'm sure. — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

Sex is the main way we exist on the planet. It's an essential part of life. — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

I'm working so much I don't see the work of many young cartoonists so it's hard for me to tell which are my favourites. Maybe when I get to stick my head out of the sand I'll be able to let you know. — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

I've known gay people - men and women - since I was a young person. To me it's just naturalistic and realistic to portray gay characters in a humanistic light. As a young man, I knew enough gay people as people not to fear them. On the other side of the coin, I like to irritate conservatives and homophobes. — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

If you believe in what you're doing, and someone criticizes that, it's likely that they're just coming from a different place and they're bringing their own baggage and it's basically projection. I try not to let it get to me. — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero