Red Hoerring

Red Hoerring is a supporting character in Gilbert Hernandez's retro-cool Lloyd Llewellyn stories, inhabiting the deadpan, offbeat world of that cult alternative-comics detective figure across early Love and Rockets issues and the collected Manly World of Lloyd Llewellyn.

Stepping out of the mid-1980s Fantagraphics underground, Red Hoerring made their debut in Gilbert Hernandez's Love and Rockets #13 in 1985 — a Bronze Age birth into one of the most celebrated alternative comics universes of the era. Red's home turf is the retro-cool, deadpan world of Lloyd Llewellyn, that wonderfully offbeat Hernandez creation, and the character also turns up across the collected Manly World of Lloyd Llewellyn. With a small but choice set of appearances alongside the likes of Ernie Hoyle, Stump Hassler, and Fatima, Red Hoerring is exactly the kind of distinctive supporting player that rewards the devoted Love and Rockets deep-diver — a name worth knowing for anyone serious about the Hernandez brothers' rich, sprawling catalog.