Cap'n Kork

A swashbuckling oddity born from the endlessly inventive imagination of Gilbert Hernandez, Cap'n Kork made their debut in the pages of Love and Rockets: New Stories #8 in 2016 — dropping anchor in the rich, sprawling world that Fantagraphics has been nurturing for decades. Sharing adventures with the likes of Katak, Trix, Isla, The Emperor of Blotos, and Lumina, this character inhabits the kind of gloriously strange, genre-bending corner of Love and Rockets that only Beto can conjure. With a modest but intriguing footprint across the series, Cap'n Kork is exactly the sort of discovery that rewards readers who dive deep into one of alternative comics' greatest ongoing sagas.