Concepcion de los Santos

Emerging from Jaime Hernandez's richly woven world in Love and Rockets #39 in 1992, Concepcion de los Santos is one of those quietly compelling figures who populate the Copper/Modern Age's most celebrated alternative comics landscape. A Fantagraphics character through and through, she inhabits the same pages as Joselito de los Santos, Socorro, Ofelia Beltran, Casimira de los Santos, and Pipo Jimenez — a constellation of characters that signals just how deeply embedded she is in the sprawling, multigenerational tapestry Hernandez has been building for decades. Her presence across Love and Rockets, Luba, and Luba's Comics and Stories over more than thirty years speaks to the kind of quiet staying power that defines the best of literary comics. For readers who love character-driven storytelling with real emotional depth, tracking down her appearances is a rewarding journey into one of alternative comics' most enduring and humane universes.