Xiohmara

Xiohmara is a resident of Palomar, the fictional Central American village at the heart of Gilbert Hernandez's celebrated Love and Rockets stories, sharing her world with a richly drawn community of women including Maricela, Chelo, and Tonantzín Villaseñor.

Emerging from the sun-drenched, myth-soaked world of Gilbert Hernandez's Palomar in 1984, Xiohmara is a Bronze Age original who found her place in one of the most celebrated alternative comics series of its era — Fantagraphics' Love and Rockets. Over roughly twelve years, she inhabits a richly populated world alongside the likes of Maricela, Chelo, Tonantzín Villaseñor, and Casimira de los Santos, the unforgettable cast that made Hernandez's corner of Love and Rockets a landmark of literary comics. She may have a modest handful of appearances in the catalog, but in Hernandez's Palomar, even a quiet presence carries weight — every face in that village belongs to a fully imagined life. For collectors and readers who treasure the human complexity that made Love and Rockets a touchstone, Xiohmara is exactly the kind of character worth seeking out.