The three were born in a Mexican-American family and grew up in Oxnard, California.
[1] In the 1980s they gained fame with their comic book Love and Rockets, a prominent series in the early alternative comics scene, and which drew from a wide range of influences, including mainstream and underground comics, punk rock, and Mexican-American culture.
Gilbert's most significant work features prominent magic realist elements in Central American settings; Jaime's has centred on multicultural Southern California.
[2] The first volume of Love and Rockets after its fiftieth issue in 1996, and while Gilbert and Jaime have taken on a great variety of other projects, they frequently returned to their most familiar characters.
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