The Hooly

The Hooly is a strange, surreal creature inhabiting the bizarre world of The Maxx, first introduced in a 1995 mini-comic tied to Sam Kieth's visually distinctive series. Its exact nature and role within that outlandish universe remain deliberately enigmatic.

Born from the singular imagination of Sam Kieth in 1995, The Hooly is one of the more intriguing curiosities to emerge from Image Comics' bold, boundary-pushing era — a creature of the strange, surreal world that made The Maxx one of the most visually and emotionally distinctive series of its time. With only a handful of catalogued appearances across The Maxx, The Maxx: Maxximized, and the mini-comic that introduced them, The Hooly is the kind of rare, offbeat figure that rewards the dedicated reader willing to dig deep into Kieth's labyrinthine mythology. Sharing pages with icons like Maxx, Mr. Gone, and Julie Winters, this character inhabits one of comics' most genuinely weird and wonderful corners — and for collectors who love the unexpected, that's more than enough reason to seek them out.