Brenda

Brenda made her entrance in the pages of Cereal Killings #4 in 1993, a Fantagraphics publication from the creative mind of James Sturm that arrived right at the heart of comics' Modern Age indie renaissance. She's a compact presence in the catalog — just four appearances across the series' short 1993–1995 run — but the company she keeps is wonderfully offbeat, sharing those pages with characters bearing names like Scarecrow, Carbunkle, and Snip. For fans of Fantagraphics' tradition of quirky, distinctive alternative comics, Brenda is a small but genuine piece of that irreverent world worth tracking down.