virtual reality artist named Magri White; Chief Coward's Ascian tribe, including young rebel Jackdaw and a band of his followers helping him explore the city Grazie Maugheri, who broadcasts an unlicensed TV program on healthcare as a sexual fetish - a subject she researches quite intimately, at times with Jaeger as subject; Brom, Jaeger's closest and oldest male friend seen thus far, who Jaeger won't sleep with and who once beat Jaeger near to death with a chair leg; Vary Krishna's professors and fellow students in Xenology/Anthropology and The Art. Royal "Roy" Sudamer Ayers, Jaeger's half-brother and possible love interest of Rachel. Themes Finder tends to focus on the primarily Western/liberal social norms of and media consumption habits of its urban characters, seen from the viewpoint of their aboriginal neighbors, and on all her characters' strategies, chiefly through travel or artistic endeavor, to escape the often quite intractable limits their societies (and others) place on them. The series makes allusions to various genres of science fiction and fantasy; apparent influences include Ursula K. Le Guin, Samuel R. Delany, and cyberpunk for thematic content, and a wide range of work for the visual aspects, from old horror comics and simple line cartoons to the science fiction work of Mœbius. Awards McNeil and Finder have been nominated for seven Eisner Awards and won in 2009 for Best Digital Comic. Finder has also won one Kimberly Yale Award and three Ignatz awards. Finder: Voice won the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Graphic Novel). In 2013, ComicsAlliance ranked Jaeger Ayers as #8 on their list of the "50 Sexiest Male Characters in Comics". Publication McNeil first self-published the series through their Lightspeed Press. They began the series in the customary comics format of 24-page magazine/pamphlets, which they soon began collecting on a roughly annual basis in trade paperback editions containing extensive footnotes explaining particulars of the story and of the richly detailed world the characters are moving through. In 2005, prompted both by low profits on the single-issues and by the format's implicit limitations on story pacing, McNeil ended the pamphlet format of the series with issue #38, and moved regular publication of the story onto their website, with two fresh pages a week appearing free on her website, formerly called www.lightspeedpress.com. The solidly profitable trade-paperback collections continued to appear annually in time for the summer convention season, although in 2007, Finder Book