Chepa

Emerging from Gilbert Hernandez's richly drawn world of Palomar and its diaspora, Chepa made her debut in Love and Rockets #35 in 1991, joining one of alternative comics' most celebrated and emotionally complex casts. A Fantagraphics character through and through, she inhabits the same vivid pages as Luba, Maggie Chascarillo, Izzy Ortiz, and Ray Dominguez — company that signals she belongs to a universe where every supporting player carries genuine weight and history. Across sixteen years of appearances in Love and Rockets and Penny Century, Chepa is a testament to the Hernandez Brothers' gift for peopling their stories with characters who feel irreducibly real, even in a modest number of appearances. For readers ready to dive deep into one of comics' great literary traditions, she's exactly the kind of discovery that rewards careful attention.