Soledad

Born into the richly imagined world of Gilbert Hernandez's Love and Rockets, Soledad made her debut in 1983 — right in the thick of the Bronze Age — as part of the vivid, deeply human tapestry that made Fantagraphics' flagship series a landmark of alternative comics. She moves through stories alongside characters like Chelo, Gato, and Manuel, the kind of colorful company that populates Hernandez's unforgettable Palomar universe. Her appearances stretch across nearly a quarter century and into New Tales of Old Palomar and The Complete Love & Rockets, a testament to the lasting life Hernandez breathed into even his most quietly placed figures. For collectors and readers who prize literary, character-driven comics at their finest, tracking down Soledad is one of those small, rewarding pleasures the Love and Rockets world always seems to offer.