Grace Hilliard

Grace Hilliard steps onto the page in Kurt Busiek and Carlos Pacheco's Arrowsmith, the acclaimed Modern Age series that reimagined World War I through a lens of fantasy and wonder. Debuting in 2003's second issue, she inhabits a richly imagined world alongside the likes of Fletcher Arrowsmith, Captain Foxe, and Mitchell Taggart — vivid company in a story that clearly had no shortage of compelling characters. With only a handful of catalog appearances across the series' brief 2003–2004 run, Grace is one of those intriguing figures whose impact outweighs her page count, the kind of supporting presence that makes a carefully crafted world feel genuinely inhabited. For fans of Busiek's meticulous world-building and Pacheco's gorgeous linework, tracking down her moments in Arrowsmith is well worth the effort.