Blophish

Blophish swims into the quirky, creator-owned waters of Steve Moncuse's The Fish Police, debuting in 1986 from the indie publisher Fishwrap Productions — right in the heart of that fertile Copper Age moment when small-press comics were brimming with weird, wonderful originality. Sharing the page with a cast of characters as colorfully named as Oscar the Octopus, Angelfish, and Inspector Gill, Blophish is part of one of the more delightfully offbeat undersea universes the era produced. With appearances also in The Fish Police: Hairballs, this is a character for the dedicated collector who loves the charming, hand-crafted spirit of indie comics at their most inventive.