He had changed the title of his strip to The Adventures of Hollywood when it was picked up as a monthly feature by the San Jose-based Lowrider magazine and steadily gained an audience. Gonzales attended California College of the Arts in Oakland. His amateur comic strip was called The Adventures of Chico Loco, and the characters were based on " barrio guys." The main character, based on Gonzales himself, was called "Hollywood." Gonzales began drawing comics while he was in high school. After attending Roman Catholic elementary school, Gonzales begged his parents to put him in a local public high school because the art program was better. He grew up in a tough, impoverished Mexican-American neighborhood. Gonzales was one of five brothers who were very close.
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