Hugo

A scrappy Bronze Age original from the early days of Fantagraphics, Hugo burst onto the independent comics scene in 1982 courtesy of the wonderfully idiosyncratic Milton Knight. This compact catalog presence — just four appearances across a short-lived run through 1985 — gives Hugo a rare, curio charm, the kind of title that devoted alternative-comics hunters still seek out. Sharing pages with the likes of Princess Trish and King Adolph the Eleventeenth, Hugo inhabits a world with a distinctly offbeat, irreverent flavor that feels right at home in Fantagraphics' early, boundary-pushing lineup. A genuine piece of indie comics history worth tracking down.