Isabel

Debuting in 1983 within the pages of Fantagraphics' Nemo: The Classic Comics Library — a publication celebrating the art and history of classic comics — Isabel is a character whose presence quietly spans an impressive stretch of comics history, from the Bronze Age all the way into 2019. Her appearances across Love and Rockets and Is This How You See Me? (A Locas Story) place her in genuinely distinguished company, sharing pages with the likes of Luba, Daphne Matsumoto, and Terry Downe in some of alternative comics' most beloved and critically cherished series. With Fantagraphics as her home, Isabel belongs to a corner of the medium defined by artistic ambition and literary seriousness. Three catalog appearances may be a modest count, but in this world, every page carries weight.