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Totem

By Laura Perez
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Totem follows two young women on a road trip through the Arizona desert, seeking a spiritual awakening. As villagers gather to witness a wise woman commune with the dead under strange, flashing lights, the narrative weaves through reality and altered states of consciousness. Presented as a mosaic of interconnected experiences, the story drifts like a vivid dream, inviting the reader to unravel its haunting symbols and subtle mysteries.
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This graphic novel will appeal to readers drawn to mystical, atmospheric stories and experimental narratives exploring spirituality and altered realities.

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Blurring the lines between the real and the spiritual, Spanish cartoonist Laura Pérez leads the reader through a dreamy journey from the Arizona desert to the land of the dead.

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Two young women road trip through the Arizona desert in search of a spiritual awakening. Crowds gather to see the village wise woman commune with the dead. Strange bright lights flash across the night sky, provoking all manner of interpretations.

A mosaic of experiences, Totem offers tantalizing glimpses of characters on their own journeys connected by some ethereal thread. The narrative slips through time and space, delicately drifting from reality to different states of consciousness. Like a vivid dream, this story is rendered through eerie settings and potent symbols, a spiritual puzzle inviting the reader to piece together.

With Totem, this self-assured graphic novel by Spanish illustrator and comics artist Laura Pérez is presented in English for the first time. Pérez presents an entrancing, contemporary vision of magic and mystery, aptly rendered through her wispy, atmospheric pencil lines.

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Totem has been described as a "strange dream" taking readers on an uncontrollable, entrancing journey. Praised for its beauty and delicacy, the graphic novel evokes states of consciousness rarely reached through comics, showcasing Laura Pérez's atmospheric pencil artistry.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781683968979

Publisher: Fantagraphics

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 12 September 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Fantagraphics

Illustration: 144 Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Translated by Andrea Rosenberg
  • Translated by Andrea Rosenberg

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 198.0mm

Height: 267.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 144

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About the Author

Laura Pérez is a Spanish illustrator and comics artist whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, National Geographic, and Vanity Fair, among others. She's created several award-winning graphic novels, and Totem is her English debut. In 2022, she was nominated for an Emmy Award for her title design for the TV series Only Murders in the Building. Andrea Rosenberg is a translator who has worked on a variety of novels and graphic narratives in Spanish and Portuguese. Her translations of the graphic novels Run For It by Marcelo D'Salete and The House by Paco Roca won Eisner Awards in 2018 and 2020, respectively.

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