Lu

Stepping out of the richly textured world Jaime Hernandez built in Love and Rockets, Lu made her debut in 1990 — right in the heart of the Copper Age, when Fantagraphics was quietly publishing some of the most literary and human comics on the stands. With only a handful of catalogued appearances across a short window into the early '90s, she's a figure of the intimate, character-dense margins that make Love and Rockets so endlessly rewarding to explore, sharing those pages with the likes of Peter Rio, Rex Walker, and Danita Lincoln. For devoted readers and completists drawn to Hernandez's singular slice-of-life storytelling, tracking down every corner of that universe — Lu included — is part of the deep pleasure of the series.