Negra Costigan

A supporting character in Jaime Hernandez's Love and Rockets universe, Negra Costigan inhabits the same close-knit social world as Maggie Chascarillo and Hopey Glass, representing the richly grounded, working-class Latina community at the heart of Hernandez's storytelling.

Emerging from the richly layered world Jaime Hernandez built at Fantagraphics in the late 1990s, Negra Costigan is one of the intimate, lived-in characters that give the Love and Rockets universe its extraordinary human texture. Debuting in Maggie and Hopey Color Special #1 in 1997, she moves through stories populated by beloved figures like Hopey Glass, Maggie Chascarillo, and Penny Century — the kind of company that signals you're deep in one of alternative comics' most celebrated neighborhoods. Her appearances across Penny Century and the Color Special are few but telling, the sort of supporting presence Hernandez renders with quiet specificity that rewards attentive readers. For collectors who treasure character-dense, emotionally honest storytelling, even a handful of pages in this corner of the Fantagraphics catalog is worth seeking out.