Laura Pérez's Nocturnos — Dreams, Fear, and the Hours After Dark : #316

There's no plot in Nocturnos.

Laura Pérez just walks you through the night — a collision on a dark road, a bedtime story that stops being a story, a path through the woods toward symbols nobody carved.    

Andy, Chad, Nicole, and JA get into Pérez's vignettes: what holds a book together when there's no narrative to hold onto, how the color work carries the dread, and why a book with this little happening in it landed on the Washington Post's best-of-the-year list. Translated by Andrea Rosenberg. Published by Fantagraphics. Winner of the 2026 Eisner for Best U.S. Edition of International Material.    

Then we play Scenarios — matching comic book characters to the nighttime jobs they'd actually be good at. Who do you want on the night shift? Who's driving the bus at 3am? Who do you trust to tell a bedtime story?    

Did You Know?: Laura Pérez was nominated for an Emmy for designing the Only Murders in the Building title sequence.

NEXT ON THE READING LIST: "Absolute Martian Manhunter" by Deniz Camp and Javier Rodriguez

Host: Andy Larson

Co Host: Chad Smith and JA Scott

Guest Panelist: Nicole Larson 

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