Jimmy Corrigan

Few comics characters carry the weight of quiet, everyday melancholy quite like Jimmy Corrigan, who first stepped onto the page in 1991's The New Comics Anthology under the hand of Robert Sikoryak. A Copper/Modern Age creation published through Kitchen Sink Press, this character found a home across an eclectic stretch of anthologies and alternative titles — Blab!, Hate Annual, Different Beat Comics — rubbing shoulders with the likes of Buddy Bradley, Maggie Chascarillo, and Harvey Pekar, a roster that tells you everything about the underground-inflected, literary corner of comics where Jimmy Corrigan belongs. With a catalog presence spanning three decades, this is a character rooted in the rich, idiosyncratic tradition of alternative comics at its most human-scaled and emotionally honest — a modest ten appearances that nonetheless place him in genuinely remarkable company.