Gato Reyna

Gato Reyna is a resident of Palomar, the fictional Latin American village at the heart of Gilbert Hernandez's stories in Love and Rockets. A member of the village's close-knit community, she appears among the colorful ensemble of townspeople whose interconnected lives define Hernandez's celebrated Heartbreak Soup narratives.

Born into the sun-drenched, myth-laden world of Palomar in the pages of Love and Rockets #3 (1983), Gato Reyna is one of Gilbert Hernandez's quietly enduring creations — a Bronze Age original who has persisted across nearly four decades of Fantagraphics storytelling. With 25 catalog appearances spread across Love and Rockets, Luba, and New Tales of Old Palomar, Gato is woven into the rich communal fabric of Hernandez's beloved fictional village, sharing pages with the likes of Pipo Jimenez, Casimira de los Santos, and Ofelia Beltran — the constellation of vivid souls that make Palomar one of comics' most fully realized communities. Two of those appearances carry key-issue weight, a testament to how meaningfully Hernandez has used even his supporting players. For collectors and readers who love character-driven, literary comics at their most human, Gato Reyna is exactly the kind of figure worth tracking down.