Cherry Popstar

Cherry Popstar is the cheerfully uninhibited protagonist of Larry Welz's adult underground comic Cherry, a good-natured young woman whose misadventures center on her freewheeling sexuality and comedic escapades, published through Kitchen Sink Press.

Bursting onto the underground comics scene in 1986 via Larry Welz's irreverent Cherry, Cherry Popstar is one of the Copper Age's most enduringly cheeky creations — a character whose adult-comics roots at the legendary Kitchen Sink Press placed her in gloriously eclectic company, sharing pages with the likes of Omaha the Cat Dancer, Flaming Carrot, and even Cerebus. With 59 catalog appearances spanning nearly four decades and a key issue to her name, she's far more than a cult curiosity — she's a testament to the wild, boundary-pushing spirit of alternative comics that flourished outside the mainstream. If you love the irreverent, anything-goes energy that made underground and independent comics so vital, Cherry Popstar is absolutely worth a closer look.