Richy the Second

Stepping out of Gilbert Hernandez's richly layered Modern Age storytelling, Richy the Second made their debut in Love and Rockets: New Stories #7 in 2015 — arriving within one of alternative comics' most celebrated and long-running franchises, published by Fantagraphics. With only a handful of catalog appearances, this is a character whose presence is spare and intriguing, sharing pages with beloved Hernandez regulars like Maggie Chascarillo and Ray Dominguez alongside the wonderfully offbeat likes of The Emperor of Blotos. For devoted Love and Rockets readers who delight in tracking every corner of Gilbert's sprawling, imaginative universe, Richy the Second is exactly the kind of quietly compelling figure worth keeping an eye on.