Mildred Lovejoy

Mildred Lovejoy is a Fantagraphics original through and through — born in 1993 from the pen of Bruce McCorkindale and rooted in the kind of offbeat, character-driven storytelling that defined the publisher's alternative comics identity. Across sixteen years and multiple volumes of the Here Come the Lovejoys series, she shares her pages with Jenny and Frank Lovejoy, suggesting a world built around family dynamics and the particular chaos that comes with them. It's a modest but enduring corner of the Copper and Modern Age independent scene, the sort of quietly committed run that rewards readers who dig beneath the mainstream. If you love Fantagraphics' tradition of intimate, idiosyncratic storytelling, Mildred and her clan are well worth seeking out.