Cornelius

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.