Soledad Marquez

Born into the richly imagined world of Gilbert Hernandez's Love and Rockets with the series' third issue in 1983, Soledad Marquez is a Bronze Age original from one of alternative comics' most celebrated and enduring titles. She inhabits the warm, complex human landscape that Hernandez built over more than three decades at Fantagraphics, sharing pages with vivid characters like Luba, Carmen, and Manuel. Her handful of catalog appearances carry the quiet weight of a world where every face has a story, and for devotees of Love and Rockets — one of the great literary achievements in the comics medium — she's a thread in a tapestry well worth following to its fullest depth.