Shelly Hine

Shelly Hine is a supporting character in the adult anthropomorphic drama Omaha the Cat Dancer, inhabiting the morally complex world surrounding exotic dancer Omaha and her circle of human and animal-person acquaintances in Kitchen Sink Press's mature-readers series.

Shelly Hine stepped onto the page in 1986 as part of Kate Worley and Reed Waller's groundbreaking Omaha the Cat Dancer, the bold Kitchen Sink Press series that made its mark during the Copper Age as one of underground comics' most mature and character-driven works. With only a handful of catalog appearances, Shelly occupies a supporting but memorable corner of that world, sharing scenes with a rich ensemble that includes Omaha the Cat Dancer herself, Chuck Katt, Jerry Davidson, and Charles Tabey Sr. It's a cast that speaks to the series' layered, soap-opera sensibility — and being woven into that tapestry at all is a distinction worth noting for any serious collector of the era.