1. Since he was born 100 years ago I want to say a few words about Santos Hernandez (1920-1968), who many have reason to be grateful for, not least because he fathered and nurtured an amazing family. https://twitter.com/xaimeh/status/1322921593337643010

2. Santos Hernandez was born in Mexico and moved to the United States in 1941, initially working on farms and packing houses, where he met his wife Aurora, who hailed from Texas.

3. Aurora and Santos had six kids: Mario, Gilbert, Richard, Lucinda, Ishmael, and Jaime. Both parents were creative -- Santos had painted when younger. The kids grew up in a household where everyone drew.

4. I've lost track of how many of the Hernandez kids been artists and musicians. The two most famous, of course, are Gilbert and Jaime, who have for 4 decades drawn comics under the umbrella title Love and Rockets.

5. Gilbert and Jaime were both quite young when their dad died. Yet his presence is everywhere in their work -- as in Gilbert's story of the fictional central American town of Palomar. The geography of their work (Guatemala to Mexico to California to Texas) is from their parents

6. Jaime's great Locas cycle -- like his brother's Palomar stories -- are shaped and populated by the extended family that links the American southwest to Mexico and central America.