Mr. Gum

Mr. Gum chewed his way into comics history with a debut in Madman Comics #16 in 1999, arriving at the tail end of the Copper Age and planting roots deep in the fertile, offbeat soil of AAA Pop's wonderfully weird universe. Over more than two decades — stretching all the way to 2022 — he's built up a respectable 33-appearance résumé across titles like The Atomics, Savage Dragon, and the handsome Madman Library Edition, sharing panels with fan-favorite characters like Frank Einstein, Madman himself, It Girl, and Jack Pomade. That kind of longevity and cross-title presence marks him as a genuine fixture of this corner of independent comics, the sort of recurring face that rewards readers who dig deep into a publisher's mythology. If you love the idiosyncratic, creator-driven spirit that made indie comics so exciting in the late '90s and beyond, Mr. Gum is exactly the kind of discovery worth tracking down.