Ellen Forney

Stepping out of the pages of Egmont's MegaPyton in 2001, Ellen Forney is a Modern Age creation from Swedish cartoonist Simon Gärdenfors, making her debut in a publication that clearly had a taste for sharp, boundary-pushing comics culture. With only a handful of catalog appearances, she's a rare find — the kind of character that dedicated collectors of international alternative comics love to stumble across. She shares her pages with a genuinely fascinating crowd, including the likes of Chester Brown, Joe Matt, and Ivan Brunetti, names that signal this corner of MegaPyton was a meeting place for some seriously distinctive comics voices.