(Artist highlight) Jaime Hernandez – Comic Book Artist

Jaime Hernandez is a comic book artist from Oxnard California, and help co-create one the most acclaimed indie comic books ever made, ” love and Rockets”. His art style is what I would call more of a classic but distinct style. Growing up with is mother, four brothers, and one sister his house was always crowed. He was exposed to comics very young and he would draw when he would ever have monuments, and he all had the desire to draw comics growing up. His mother was a pretty big comic book reader and was into comics since she was a small child. She was always willing to support his artist life style. It was only when he left high school when he thought that with his bothers helping write and edit, could get involved into making comics. Hernandez was influenced by Dennis the Menace and Archie comics. Both are drawn by Hank Ketcham and DanCarlo, which Jamie based his drawing style on often using “DeCarlo-esque” poses. Jamie has always had a love for punk rock and in addition to him playing in several bands. He eventually based is comics around the premises of punk rock bands, one of which is “Love and Rockets.” The comic is based on a group of Latina women in a punk rock band on tour. The comic book also has a repetition for long on going and story lines in which the age of the comic book finished-frame-Love-and-rockets-vol-2-no-7-Jaime-Hernandez effects the Characters , they are all in their 40s now. (Pretty cool to keep it going that long.) His comic book didn’t have super heroes or a sci-if genre. Which put the comic in the indie comic genera which was at the time considered a very unpopular genera do to a lack of sales. Today the indi-comic scecne is far more popular, now even with websites devoted to indie comic themselves like Webtoons or
Comixology. Jaime Hernandez was considered one of the pioneers of the genera even having his comics featuring and lesbian main character. His art work and comic book prowess has help define the comic world. Jaime Hernandez is still in California drawing today.