Casimira de los Santos

Born into the rich, sun-drenched world of Jaime Hernandez's Love and Rockets in 1984, Casimira de los Santos is a Bronze Age original who has quietly endured for over three and a half decades in one of alternative comics' most celebrated universes. A Fantagraphics fixture, she moves through the pages of Love and Rockets, Luba, and Luba's Comics and Stories in the company of some of Hernandez's most beloved creations — Luba, Pipo Jimenez, Maricela, Guadalupe, and Ofelia Beltran among them — a roster that speaks to the depth and warmth of the world she inhabits. With two key-issue appearances to her name and 36 catalog appearances spanning all the way to 2020, she's the kind of character who rewards the devoted reader who follows a richly drawn community across a lifetime of storytelling. If you love comics that treat their characters as real, breathing people worth returning to again and again, Casimira de los Santos is exactly the kind of discovery that makes Love and Rockets so endlessly worth exploring.