From Granada to Cordoba Paperback by Pier Dola

Product Details

• Publisher: Fantagraphics (2021-11-16)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 240 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781683964988
• Item Weight: 368.55 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

SEX & DEATH are the primal subjects that Pier Dola explores with unrelenting tenacity in his incendiary debut graphic novel.

A rectal prolapse and a terminal cancer diagnosis launch our unnamed everyman protagonist into a scabrous, self-lacerating inner journey as he confronts his imminent mortality. Wandering the city in a state of self-obsessed delirium, his protuberant, snake-like rectum dragging behind him (a literally sputtering and exploding visual metaphor), our everyman desperately searches for the meaning of his life. Along the way, he stumbles across an endless stream of victims of life’s brutal vagaries — street philosophers, degenerates, libidinous monstrosities, fascistic cops, sages, his own daughter, and ultimately his doppelgänger — as his life spirals into a hallucinatory series of near-psychotic episodes, including what may be the most horrifyingly surreal Freudian nightmare ever penned by a cartoonist.  

A modern day Pilgrim’s Progress as seen through the scatological lens of an unrestrained satirist working at full throttle, Pier Dola’s From Granada to Cordoba is a riotous, relentless, and terrifying attempt to grapple with the abyss. 

About the Author

Pier Dola was born in Zielona Gora, Poland in 1965. His father was a sailor on oil tankers and Pier grew up reading comics from South America, which is why his greatest influences are Doctor Mortis, the multi genre series of comics created by the writer and actor Juan Marino Cabello, and the works of Alberto Breccia and Carlos Nine. He left Italy at age 20 and lived as a beggar in Italy, France, Germany, and, finally, Holland. He was a squatter until he married. He has a 12 year old son and currently works as a dishwasher. His debut book, From Granada to Cordoba (Fantagraphics Underground Press), published in 2021.