Jesse Sanchez

Jesse Sanchez is Street Angel, a homeless teenage girl and martial-arts prodigy who skateboards through the dangerous streets of Wilksburg, fighting ninjas, pirates, and other outlandish threats despite having no superpowers — just toughness, skill, and relentless attitude.

Jesse Sanchez burst onto the indie comics scene in 2004 with the launch of Street Angel from Slave Labor Graphics, a scrappy, irreverent publisher that gave creators room to do something genuinely different — and Jim Rugg delivered exactly that. Sharing pages with wild company like Street Angel, Stardust, and the golden-age icon Fantomah, Jesse inhabits a wonderfully eclectic corner of the Modern Age where underground sensibility meets superhero mythology. With appearances stretching across two decades and into titles like Local Man and Illustrators, this is a character with real staying power in the indie world. If you love comics that color outside the lines, Jesse Sanchez is well worth tracking down.