Spanish Department Hosts Comic Book Artist Jaime Hernandez

Amherst’s Department of Spanish welcomed famed cartoonist Jaime Hernandez to Fayerweather’s Pruyne Lecture Hall on Wednesday, Sept. 30. He sat on a panel alongside Professor of Spanish Ilan Stavans, as well as Visiting Professor of Spanish Frederick Aldama, who wrote about Hernandez in his book “Your Brain on Latino Comics.” The Spanish department hosted a small reception afterwards. Jaime Hernandez, along with his brothers Gilbert and Mario, began writing and illustrating “Love and Rockets” i