Pintor

Emerging from the richly imagined world of Gilbert Hernandez's Love and Rockets in 1983, Pintor is one of the quietly enduring figures of that landmark Bronze Age series that helped redefine what alternative comics could be. A Fantagraphics character through and through, Pintor shares the pages of Hernandez's beloved Palomar-adjacent stories alongside characters like Manuel, Chelo, and Carmen — the kind of vivid, fully human company that made Love and Rockets a touchstone for generations of readers. Spanning nearly a quarter century of publication across Love and Rockets, New Tales of Old Palomar, and The Complete Love & Rockets, Pintor may have a modest appearance count, but that only makes each showing feel like a gem worth hunting down for the devoted collector.