Yorick Brown

When a mysterious plague simultaneously killed every male mammal on Earth except him and his Capuchin monkey Ampersand, slacker amateur escape artist Yorick Brown found himself humanity's last surviving man — his immunity later linked to exposure to Ampersand's feces.

Few characters in Modern Age comics carry as much weight as Yorick Brown, the unforgettable protagonist of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's landmark Y: The Last Man, which launched in 2002 and has continued to reach new readers across nearly two decades of collected editions and compendiums. Emerging from DC's Vertigo imprint at a moment when mature, literary comics were redefining what the medium could do, Yorick anchors one of the most celebrated series of his era — a sprawling, emotionally rich story that keeps extraordinary company, sharing its pages with the formidable Agent 355, the enigmatic Allison Mann, and a cast of characters as vivid as any in comics. Whether you're discovering him through the original singles or diving into the Y: The Last Man Compendium, this is a character — and a series — that reminds you why comics storytelling is genuinely irreplaceable.