Every day I run into people who don't know what I do. And even after I explain it they still don't know what I do. So now I can just say, 'Pick up the Locas book!' And that tells them all.

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).