Violet

Bursting onto the independent comics scene in 1995, Violet made her debut in Extremes of Violet #0 — a bold, attention-grabbing launch from Blackout Comics, courtesy of creators Bruce Schoengood and Dell Barras. She's a product of that scrappy, anything-goes Modern Age spirit, when small publishers were pushing boundaries and carving out their own fierce corners of the medium. Her world is a vivid one, sharing pages with the likes of Angelique Vampré and Kari Sun across titles like Bad Girls of Blackout and Hari Kari: Possessed by Evil — company that tells you everything about the wild, edgy energy of her corner of the Blackout universe. A rare find with only a handful of catalog appearances, Violet is exactly the kind of cult gem that makes digging through the indie racks of the mid-'90s so rewarding.