Becky Backman

Becky Backman stepped onto the page in 1988 within the gloriously strange world of Chester Brown's Yummy Fur, the Vortex anthology that became one of the Copper Age's most daring and singular comics. Sharing those offbeat, boundary-pushing pages with the likes of Ed the Happy Clown and an eclectic cast of Backmans, Becky occupies a small but genuine corner of Brown's deeply personal and inventive storytelling universe. With only a handful of appearances, she's a collector's footnote rather than a headliner — but for fans who love the weird, wonderful underground currents of late-'80s Canadian alternative comics, tracking down her issues of Yummy Fur is absolutely worth the hunt.