Cornelius: The Merry Life of a Wretched Dog

by Marc Torices, Andrea Rosenberg (Translator)

Overview

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 immense guilt 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-fueled 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 metanarratives.

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781770467767
Publisher:	Drawn & Quarterly
Publication date:	06/03/2025
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 10.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Marc Torices (1989) is a comics artist and animator.

While studying illustration at the Llotja-Avinyó school in Barcelona, he co founded the imprint Zángano 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 Cortázar, written by Jesús 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.