Tom Tom

Emerging from the sun-drenched, emotionally rich world of Gilbert Hernandez's Love and Rockets in 1986, Tom Tom is a Copper Age creation from one of alternative comics' most celebrated ongoing sagas. Over a span of more than two decades, this Fantagraphics character moves through the same vivid, character-dense pages as Maggie Chascarillo, Izzy Ortiz, and Vicki Glori — the kind of company that signals real depth in Hernandez's sprawling, interconnected universe. With appearances spread across both Love and Rockets and the Love and Rockets Library collections, and at least one collector-significant key issue to their name, Tom Tom may be a quiet presence in the catalog, but in Beto's hands, even a handful of appearances can carry a lifetime of weight.