Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.

The children in his otherwise rather realistic stories are often drawn to resemble Ketcham's and Jaime's character's often strike very DeCarlo-esque poses. Eventually Hernandez dropped almost all of the sci-fi elements although he does still occasionally include. "I wanted to draw comics my whole life.

Jaime (sometimes spelled Xaime) Hernandez (born 1959) is the co-creator of the independent comic book Love and Rockets (along with his brothers Gilbert and Mario).