Almost two years have passed since its original publication, but Laura Pérez continues to achieve success with her graphic novel Nocturnos. The work has been nominated for the prestigious Eisner Awards for comics, in the category of Best U.S. Edition of International Material.

Specifically, the edition by Fantagraphics, translated by Andrea Rosenberg, has been nominated. It shares the category with other works such as Buff Soul by Moa Romanova; Cornelius: The Merry Life of a Wretched Dog by Marc Torices; In the End We All Die by Tobias Aeschbacher; Raging Clouds by Yudori; and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Anaïs Flogny.

Nocturnos explores the margins of the night through mystery, intimacy, and estrangement. Published by Astiberri, the work is structured through small, interconnected stories that move between the everyday and the dreamlike, where the boundaries between reality, dream, and memory become blurred.

With a style marked by masses of black and minimalist staging, Pérez constructs unsettling atmospheres that touch upon themes such as loneliness, fear, memory, and the need for companionship in a world traversed by technology and uncertainty. The night thus becomes the true central character of the book: an ambiguous space where intimate ghosts, nocturnal animals, dreams, and presences emerge.

The author, previously recognized for works such as Ocultos, Tótem, or Espanto, has made the observation of the invisible and the strange through fragmented and sensory narrative her signature style.