{"id":471,"date":"2013-04-27T16:19:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T16:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/?p=471"},"modified":"2013-04-27T16:34:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T16:34:20","slug":"gilbert-hernandez-how-i-got-started-in-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"Gilbert Hernandez – “How I Got Started In Comics”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gilbert Hernandez Discusses the Comics and Artists Who Influenced Him<\/h1>\n

Love and Rockets<\/em> Brothers At Skylight Book Shop in Hollywood!<\/h1>\n

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\"DSC_1035<\/a>Beloved cartoonist Gilbert Hernandez (LOVE & ROCKETS) launched his new D+Q graphic novel MARBLE SEASON, <\/em>at Skylight Bookshop in Hollywood to a packed room of his fans and comic readers. <\/em>Hernandez presented a fascinating slide show \u201cFrom Funnybooks to Graphic Novels\u201d featuring the comics of his childhood.\u00a0 In addition, there was a question and answer session with fans and a book signing. (Some signed copies may still be available at Skylight).\u00a0 The silver age comics he read as a child not only influenced MARBLE SEASON, but also set the course for Gilbert, as well as his brothers Jaime and Mario, to become the legendary comics creators they are today.<\/p>\n

Marble Season<\/em> is his first graphic novel for Drawn & Quarterly<\/strong><\/p>\n

MARBLE SEASON<\/em> is the first ever semi-autobiographical novel by acclaimed cartoonist \"200px-LoveAndRockets31\"<\/a>Gilbert Hernandez of Love & Rockets<\/em>, and is also his first graphic novel for Drawn & Quarterly. Meet Huey. He\u2019s the middle child of a big family, growing up in a California suburb in the 1960s. He stages Captain America plays in the backyard and treasures his older brother\u2019s comic-book collection almost as much as his approval. Set against the golden age of the American dream and the silver age of comics, MARBLE SEASON is a subtle and deft rumination on the redemptive and timeless power of storytelling and world-building in childhood.<\/p>\n

\u201cPerhaps no other current creators of comics recognize (or vividly remember) the ways actual kids think, talk, or even stand and walk as accurately as the Hernandez brothers, and no other comics artists so delicately intertwine moments of childhood trauma with the goofy logic that otherwise sustains kids when they begin to sense that they live in an irrational world.\u201d\u2014from the afterword by Corey Creekmur<\/p>\n

\u201cGilbert Hernandez is one of the great craftsmen of modern comics.\u201d\u2014New York Times<\/p>\n

Praise for Palomar: \u201cThese deeply influential tales, a sort of Archie-comics-meets-Marquez melange of complicated pan-American inter-relationships, are a comix epic.\u201d\u2014Time<\/p>\n

Praise for Gilbert Hernandez: \u201cHe\u2026[should]\u2026be considered one of the greatest American storytellers. It\u2019s so hard to do funny, tragic, local and epic, and he does all simultaneously, and with great aplomb.\u201d\u2014Junot Diaz, Los Angeles TIMES<\/p>\n

Click here to see video on youtube.<\/a><\/p>\n

Click here to go to Skylight Books to get a signed copy.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Gilbert Hernandez Discusses the Comics and Artists Who Influenced Him Love and Rockets Brothers At Skylight Book Shop in Hollywood!   Beloved cartoonist Gilbert Hernandez (LOVE & ROCKETS) launched his new D+Q graphic novel MARBLE SEASON, at Skylight Bookshop in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,9,13],"tags":[15,153,206,35,154,156,75],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cartoonbazooka.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}