BEM

From the very first issue of Love and Rockets in 1981, BEM stepped onto the page as part of Jaime Hernandez's groundbreaking Fantagraphics debut — a Bronze Age arrival in one of the most celebrated alternative comics launches of its era. Over roughly eighteen years, this character weaves through the richly imagined world of Love and Rockets and even crosses into Madman Comics, keeping company with an eclectic cast that includes Paulo P. Piñata, Castle Radium, and Yax Haxley. With a key-issue appearance to their name and a debut in a comic that changed what the medium could be, BEM is a small but genuine piece of alternative comics history — the kind of discovery that rewards the devoted collector who reads every panel.