“My personality is all in my comics, and my personality is all over the place,” he explains. For want of a better word…”Īlthough Marble Season seems a radical departure, Hernandez sees balance and change as essential to his creative process. I wanted to live up to a lot of the good response I’ve had in the past, but put that effort into something that’s, let’s say, clean. “I thought I’d put myself into Marble Season,” Hernandez says, “but it wasn’t going to have all those things that my daughter can’t look at, or I don’t want her to look at. “I thought: what kind of book can I do that’s authentic to what I do, but that my daughter can read?” Hernandez’s daughter is 12, a little young for the zombie splatter of his Fatima: The Blood Spinners or the sexually omnivorous pornography of Birdland. Gilbert Hernandez talks to The Telegraph about his latest book, Marble Season, and making a comic his daughter could read:
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