He’s doing really good, I’d better step up my game.” And that always helps. If he’s working on a story that’s really important to him, a stronger story than usual, it gets me more - like : “oh, I’d better keep up. Jaime Hernandez : Yeah, it’s - I guess also Gilbert keeps me on my toes. Xavier Guilbert : And even after so many years, you still enjoy this ? But there have been people who have been confused by it. Somehow it does, you two guys together.” On the other hand, there have been people who asked : “why two people in this one book ?” And we’d say : “because there’s two of us.” (laugh) You know, simple. There was a time where we were wondering, we were asking our publisher : “do you think we should start separating it, or put all his at once, and then mine ?” And they said : “no, no, no, it works this way. We didn’t plan it or anything, it was just… sharing a book. Jaime Hernandez : Someone told us early on, when we were starting the comic, that they liked reading our stuff side by side, that the work complemented each other. Sometimes there’s not even a chapter page - as a reader, it’s quite obvious whose work you’re looking at, but from a formal point of view, things are really mixed, presented as something of a whole. Xavier Guilbert : What is striking in the Love and Rockets issues, there’s no clear separation between your works. I don’t know what would happen if I thought his work was terrible. (laugh) I mean, it’s a good thing that I like Gilbert’s work a lot. It’s cool, you know ? I can’t think of anything else besides that. I like the fact that Gilbert and I are connected in a way, even if we do our works separate.
There’s a few of your books that have been published under just your name (namely, the Whoa, Nellie ! and the Penny Century books), but most of your output came out under the “Los Bros Hernandez” moniker.
Xavier Guilbert : You have an exhibition here in your own name - how do you relate to being part of the “Los Bros” entity ? Preparing for this interview, I ended up having a lot of questions comparing you to Gilbert, and I thought - no, this has to be about Jaime, and not about comparing the brothers.
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