Big Red

Few publishers have nurtured stranger, more dreamlike corners of comics than Fantagraphics, and Big Red is one of the quietly fascinating figures to emerge from that world — debuting in Jim #1 in 1987, the Copper Age creation of the singular Jim Woodring. Appearing across Jim and The Book of Jim, this character keeps genuinely surreal company, sharing pages with the likes of Frank, Pulque, and the wonderfully named Big Egypt Parlor Sphinx. With only a handful of catalog appearances, Big Red is a rarity in the truest sense — a small but intriguing piece of Woodring's deeply personal, visionary body of work that rewards the curious collector willing to dig in.