It is curious the way in which that era, which contains so many classics, appears only as a tiny dot that moves away in the rear-view mirror of the reader in Spanish, who seemed to begin to consider the comic as something more than superheroes from the 2000s onwards. The magazine to which it refers is the one that contained Crazy, that is to say, Love & Rockets, the instant classic of a time, the eighties, which propelled the Hernandez brothers in, above all, the nineties, the golden age of North American independent comics, that would not exist without the push of Robert Crumb in the seventies and his magazine Weirdo in the next two decades. One of the pages of 'Is this how you see me?'. “I met the girl Hopey is based on in the 1980s, just as we started drawing our own magazine. Married to the character who in the series ends up married to a woman. And find out, for example, that he is married to Hopey Glass. of the recent Is this how you see me? (The Dome), his last foray into the universe Crazy, virtually. Hernández lives in Pasadena, California, and is not overly given to transatlantic walks or interviews, but can be heard talking. The place is a bookstore, the Politics and Prose of Washington. There is a small audience in front of him. He is sitting on a stool that does not look very comfortable. We were not going to wait for anyone to like what we were doing, we were going to do it without further ado, ”he recalls.

'The punk It helped us, of course it helped us. The day they decided, together, that nobody was ever going to tell them how and what they should draw.

that he created with two of his brothers on any given day in 1981. 'You couldn't consider being anything other than a cartoonist in a house like this,' said the youngest of the brothers, Jaime Hernandez (Oxnard, California, 61 years old), the guy who has been expanding the universe for almost four decades. The mother of the boys and the girl did nothing but read them. They grew up in a house where there were more comics than anything.

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