Well, it's actually titled "The outlandish story of the film The B-Movie Girl," as you may have noticed on the beautiful cover illustrations of this booklet.
You came for Sergio Mora, right? Well, here he is at the official presentation of his work for Autsaider Comics, very well accompanied by the heads of the publishing house.
Open a beer or a Mirinda, depending on the situation, slump back on the couch, hit play and enjoy!!!
We're just as blown away. How cool to have this amazing book by the master of Iberian lowbrow comics at Autsaider! An illustrated novel, a comic with lots of text, a ping-pong match of narrative and comics, a bit like those Bruguera books from the 60s, with the odd-numbered page featuring panels that complement the narrative of the text on its left.
With four direct inks like four kisses on the pupils, Sergio Mora, aka Mágico Mora, crafts a top-notch humorous tale, illustrated with his unmistakable style inspired by 1950s comics and a distinctly Spanish flair, blending American pop culture, earthenware jugs and palaces, the supernatural and the mundane, magic and the earthly, cinema, comics, history, and life. Ordinary life, that is, his own, for example. Relationships, misunderstandings, lustful encounters, fleeting moments, and that sort of thing. To delve into all this, Mora intertwines two storylines. On one hand, there's the filming of a movie about Milicent Patrick, the creator of Universal's classic monster, the Creature from the Lagoon, whose authorship was concealed and her figure relegated to obscurity for decades. On the other hand, there are the misadventures of the film's director, Simón Sagal, his tense relationship, the tortuous road to fame, conspiracies, haters, drug-addled managers, spells, incantations, and various other events that make this combination an unprecedented monstrosity, shamelessly employing narrative devices panned by critics. Sergio Mora has done what he felt like doing, he had a great time, and it shows.
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