Sergi PuyolStrange Blood

Strange Blood

Sergi Puyol

‘Strange Blood’ is both a mystery thriller and psychological exploration of what triggers obsession inside the human mind. What exactly does stranger blood stand for? Arnaldo’s life is filled with a pneumatic void. He can’t stand Fridays, can’t stand working, he can’t stand, in general, his sorry postmodern existence. Until one day something random happens. Against his will, his spirit is shaken to the core leading him into an all-consuming obsession. He goes on a compulsive hunt to find answers, and his search will lead him through Russian novels, gallons of beer and into metaphysical questions to finally realize one can escape any place on earth except his mind.

Sergi Puyol has put all his visual skills into a story that is both gripping and disturbing, in which we can never be sure of what is true and what is false. Only one thing appears to be true beyond the shadow of doubt: obsession can drag us into insanity.

Gerardo Vilches comics critic and curator

Series Release Extent Binding Illustrations ISBN Price Life July 2021 120 pp; 165 x 235 mm HC full-colour 978-1-912278-26-8 23 GBP / 33 USD / 28 EUR

Sergi Puyol (Barcelona, Spain, 1980) is a professional letterer and cartoonist. He studied Graphic Design at Elisava School in Barcelona. He works as a graphic designer, but he mainly draws and reads comics in his free time. He is the co-owner of the Spanish comics Publishing House Apa-Apa comics together with Toni Mascaró since 2011 where he has released almost all his work, including the most recent Strange Blood. He is co-editor of Colibrí Fanzine, also has participated in loads of other fanzines and some publications as Panorama, la novela gráfica española hoy (Astiberri, 2013) or Rubor (La Cúpula, 2015) as well as in the Lithuanian publication Kûs!.