Jimmy Reyna

Born into the richly layered world Gilbert Hernandez has been building since the early days of Love and Rockets, Jimmy Reyna made his debut in 1995 and has quietly accumulated nearly three decades of appearances across some of Fantagraphics' most celebrated titles — Luba, Love and Rockets: New Stories, and the flagship series itself. He moves through a constellation of compelling characters that includes Rosalba "Fritz" Martinez, Pipo Jimenez, and Guadalupe Reyna, the kind of vivid, fully human company that makes Hernandez's corner of comics feel like a living, breathing community. With 29 catalog appearances spanning from the Copper Age into the present day, Jimmy is one of those figures who rewards the dedicated reader — a thread woven steadily through one of alternative comics' great ongoing tapestries.