Debra Lillard

Debra Lillard stepped onto the page in the Modern Age debut of the relaunched Love and Rockets #1 in 2001, a creation of the incomparable Jaime Hernandez for Fantagraphics — one of the most celebrated alternative comics publishers in the medium. Over a handful of years she shares her world with a tight-knit cast including Taggert Lillard, Lily Lillard, Henry Tweeder, and Julio Reyes, the kind of intimate ensemble storytelling that makes Love and Rockets so beloved by devoted readers. With nine catalog appearances, she's a quietly specific figure in Hernandez's richly human universe — exactly the sort of character that rewards fans who dig deeper into one of alternative comics' crown jewels.