Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful - I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard!

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).