Isobel

Isobel is a supporting character in Gilbert Hernandez's Palomar stories within Love and Rockets, inhabiting the same richly drawn Latin American community as Luba and other recurring figures in his celebrated Heartbreak Soup saga.

Emerging from the pages of Fantagraphics' beloved Love and Rockets in 1989, Isobel is one of Gilbert Hernandez's quietly compelling creations — a Copper Age figure woven into the rich, literary tapestry that made that series a landmark of alternative comics. With a run stretching into the early '90s and a key issue among her appearances, she's the kind of character who rewards the devoted reader willing to dig into Hernandez's deeply human storytelling. She shares her world with a vivid cast including Maya, Maricela, and Peter Rio — the sort of ensemble that gives Love and Rockets its novelistic warmth — and while her seven catalogued appearances are select, in this universe that's never meant small.