Juan N. Seguin

Few comic characters carry the weight of real history the way Juan N. Seguin does — a genuine figure from the Texas frontier brought to vivid life in the Bronze Age underground tradition by the singular cartoonist Jaxon. Debuting in 1979's Recuerden el Alamo, Seguin anchors a trio of historically minded works — Los Tejanos, Recuerden el Alamo, and Tejano Exile — that together form one of Fantagraphics' most earnest attempts to reclaim overlooked American history through sequential art. For readers hungry for comics that reach beyond superheroics into the complexities of real human legacy, this small but purposeful body of work is absolutely worth seeking out.