Cornelius: The Merry Life of a Wretched Dog [Hardcover]

Horrifying and hilarious, Cornelius the dog is a spectacular train wreckyou just cant look away


Cornelius is a fumbling loser, the butt of everyone's jokes. When his friend Alspacka iskidnapped, the subsequent criminal investigation turns into a dramatic and emotionalordeal, upending Corneliuss life. Torn between his desire to be a writer and his immenseguilt over his cowardly role in Alspackas 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: afarcical collage that reads like a drug-fueled fever dream, an intense emotional pendulumoscillating between psychological horror and slapstick comedya real roller coaster. Andtruthfully, Cornelius is all this and more: a brand, a phenomenon, a way of life. From thesingular mind of Marc Torices comes a surreal, carefully curated universe, complete with itsown icons, mythology, and metanarratives.


Exquisitely drawn, Corneliuss kaleidoscope of styles pays homage to the comicsmedium, an unabashed love letter to the form itself. Translated from the Spanish by EisnerAward-winner Andrea Rosenberg, Marc Torices's critically acclaimed and award-winningCornelius is mesmerizing in its originality.
Using the breadth of comic strip history, Marc Torices builds a monument of irrationality by way of his stooge, Cornelius the Dog. Like many of us, he cant help but gnaw off his own leg time and time again in the face of lifes perplexities. Thankfullyfor us and Corneliusthe world still turns. Charles Forsman

It seems that Cornelius, like an archetype or a myth, has always existed. This is a comic beyond time, in the eternity of dogs,lS»