E. T.

Emerging from the fertile, boundary-pushing world of Gilbert Hernandez's Love and Rockets in 1989, E. T. is a Copper Age creation from one of alternative comics' most celebrated series — a Fantagraphics landmark that redefined what the medium could be. With only six catalogued appearances across a compact 1989–1992 window, E. T. is a rare, intimate figure whose debut issue carries collector-significant key status, making those appearances all the more worth hunting down. Sharing pages with the likes of Maricela, Rex Walker, and Junior Brooks, E. T. inhabits the richly drawn human landscape that made Love and Rockets legendary — a world where every minor character feels lived-in and real.