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Hernandez brothers

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Template:Short description The Hernandez brothers, also known as Los Bros Hernandez,Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". are the three American cartoonist brothers Mario (b. 1953), Gilbert (b. 1957), and Jaime Hernandez (b. 1959).

The three were born in a Mexican-American family and grew up in Oxnard, California.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". In the 1980s they gained fame with their comic book Love and Rockets, a prominent series in the early alternative comics scene, and which drew from a wide range of influences, including mainstream and underground comics, punk rock, and Mexican-American culture. They began publishing the black-and-white series themselves in 1981, and Fantagraphics Books published it from 1982. The brothers normally worked independently of each other on their own stories. Gilbert's most significant work features prominent magic realist elements in Central American settings; Jaime's has centred on multicultural Southern California. Mario's contributions have been infrequent.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The first volume of Love and Rockets after its fiftieth issue in 1996, and while Gilbert and Jaime have taken on a great variety of other projects, they frequently returned to their most familiar characters.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

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