Dirac Dist El Designio Spanish comic

In a post-pandemic Barcelona, El Largo, the exorcist Father Elías, and the one-handed Patricia follow the trail of Maravillas, an enigmatic and fascinating woman whose dramatic death is surrounded by mystery and unknowns.

This investigation will take them to the underworld of Barcelona, to taverns and flamenco bars, to oriental bazaars and sinister post-mortem experiences, giving rise to stories within the story, each with its own graphic and narrative register.

A story that combines dirty realism with the dreamlike in which, with their immeasurable talent for storytelling and drawing, Pérez Andújar and Pérez Vernetti will guide the reader along that fine line that separates life from death.

Javier Pérez Andújar is a writer, columnist, and radio chronicler.

His works are crossed by references to films, comics, records, books, and walks through a bustling, popular, and hidden Barcelona, whose memory he strives to preserve, despite real estate speculation and the voracity of tourists.

Laura Pérez Vernetti.

One of the pioneers of independent and underground comics, developed in Spain after the dictatorship.

Author of works such as El toto blanco or One Thousand and One Nights, she was recognized with the Grand Prize of the Barcelona Comic Fair in 2018, although she deserved it long before.