Cornelius: The Merry Life of a Wretched Dog

Torices, Marc

ISBN 10: 1770467769 / ISBN 13: 9781770467767

Published by Drawn and Quarterly, 2025

Seller Inventory # I-9781770467767

Synopsis:

Horrifying and hilarious, Cornelius the dog is a spectacular train wreck―you just can’t look away

Cornelius is a fumbling loser, the butt of everyone's jokes. When his friend Alspacka is kidnapped, the subsequent criminal investigation turns into a dramatic and emotional ordeal, upending Cornelius’s life. Torn between his desire to be a writer and his immenseguilt over his cowardly role in Alspacka’s abduction, Cornelius is a classic Faustian figure: an aspiring artist so hungry for success that he will pay any price.

Rarely does a book so delightfully defy categorization. Cornelius is an experience: a farcical collage that reads like a drug-fuelled fever dream, an intense emotional pendulum oscillating between psychological horror and slapstick comedy―a real roller coaster. And truthfully, Cornelius is all this and more: a brand, a phenomenon, a way of life. From the singular mind of Marc Torices comes a surreal, carefully curated universe, complete with its own icons, mythology, and meta narratives.

Exquisitely drawn, Cornelius’s kaleidoscope of styles pays homage to the comics medium, an unabashed love letter to the form itself. Translated from the Spanish by Eisner Award-winner Andrea Rosenberg, Marc Torices's critically acclaimed and award-winning Cornelius is mesmerizing in its originality.

About the Author: Marc Torices (1989) is a comics artist and animator. While studying illustration at the Llotja-Avinyo school in Barcelona, he co founded the imprint Zangano Comix with classmate Pau Anglada, and self-published La cultura del duodeno, Viaje a Maiame, among other zines. In addition to writing comics, he s also worked as an editorial illustrator, an animator, and as an art director for some animation studios and other creative enterprises. Before the publication of Cornelius, Torices self-published several fanzines featuring the dog, and he also created the art for the biography Cortazar, written by Jesus Marchamalo and published in Spain, France, and Italy. He worked on some other comics before this as well, but never with the same enthusiasm as he had for Cornelius: The Merry Life of a Wretched Dog.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Cornelius: The Merry Life of a Wretched Dog
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
Publication Date: 2025
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New