Calvin Chascarillo

Calvin Chascarillo is a supporting character in Jaime Hernandez's Locas stories, sharing the Chascarillo family name with protagonist Maggie. He inhabits the same vividly realized Southern California world of working-class relationships and everyday drama that defines the Locas universe.

A family name carries real weight in Jaime Hernandez's beloved Locas universe, and Calvin Chascarillo carries his with quiet distinction. Debuting in Love and Rockets #20 in 2007 — well into the Modern Age of the series that Fantagraphics has championed as one of alternative comics' crown jewels — Calvin moves through a world populated by richly drawn figures like Maggie Chascarillo, Ray Dominguez, and Fritz. With appearances stretching across Love and Rockets, Love and Rockets: New Stories, and the celebrated Is This How You See Me? (A Locas Story), Calvin is a supporting thread woven through over a decade of Hernandez's intimate, humanist storytelling — a small but genuine piece of a very large heart.