Chiness

Chiness is a character from Gilbert Hernandez's Palomar stories in Love and Rockets, inhabiting the sun-drenched, mythic Latin American village setting that defines that strand of the series.

Stepping out of the sun-drenched, mythic world of Palomar, Chiness is a Bronze Age creation of Gilbert Hernandez, debuting in the landmark Fantagraphics series Love and Rockets back in 1984 — one of the most celebrated alternative comics of its era. Though a modest presence in the catalog, Chiness inhabits a richly populated universe, sharing pages with vivid figures like Penny Century, Rand Race, and Dot Winks across a run that stretched an impressive three decades. For fans who love Hernandez's deeply human, literary approach to sequential art, even a character with a handful of appearances can carry real weight in that beautifully strange world.