Fritz Jr.

A fresh face in Gilbert Hernandez's endlessly inventive universe, Fritz Jr. arrived in 2015 within the pages of Love and Rockets: New Stories — one of Fantagraphics' crown jewels of literary comics — and has since moved through the rich, layered world Hernandez has been building for decades. Sharing stories with vivid characters like Dora "Killer" Rivera and Professor Enigma across Love and Rockets and the evocatively titled Psychodrama Illustrated, Fritz Jr. inhabits exactly the kind of emotionally charged, boundary-pushing Modern Age storytelling that has made the Hernandez brothers legendary. Still a relatively rare presence in the catalog, this is a character worth tracking for any serious fan of alternative comics at their most ambitious.