Jordan Crane in conversation with Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez: ‘We’re a family of storytellers’

Interviews Chris Mautner | September 16, 2026 Jaime page from Love and Rockets #17. The following conversation took place on April 19 at the Ray Stark Family Theater at USC during The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. JORDAN CRANE: Good afternoon, everybody. Hello. This afternoon, we have the distinct pleasure and honor of speaking with the two greatest cartoonists to have ever worked in the medium. They've been publishing for about 45 years now. You can call it a legacy or a body of work, yet it maintains a vibrancy and immediacy that is unparalleled in many artists’ history of working. It's constantly challenging the reader with new things, changing and growing as artists. We as readers adapt and change with them. Which is an incredible relationship, authentic and beautiful. So we’re very happy to be here with them today. Thanks to both of you for being here with us. Many artists working in any medium might get kind of attached to what works, what people like. It doesn't seem like either one of you has that issue. Gilbert, you're drawing comics at the rate of, like, the house is on fire. And Jaime, you know … JAIME HERNANDEZ: Slow. You say you're slow, but you're still putting...