It's rare that I actually have a story in my head. I have events or 'what's the next move?' Like, Maggie, 'where's she going to go in this story, where's she going to end up?' Then the story has to fill in the in-between, and that comes as I'm starting it.

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).