The Mysterious Travels of Cornelius Dark

The Mysterious Travels of Cornelius Dark is a collection of six stories short films made in the 1970s. The whole forms a completed cycle. Cornelius Dark is a prisoner who escapes from his cell using the power of his imagination. This narrative concept was precisely inspired to Carlos Trillo by an episode of Mort Cinder, in which a prisoner tries to escape from the mental tortures generated by isolation. Breccia, torn between his job from comic book teacher, the production of commercial series and its plastic ambitions, uses here collages, white paint and other washes which allow it to reach a new aesthetic level. Alberto Breccia (1919-1993) is one of the great masters of Argentine comics. He owes him in particular the great classics of world comics Mort Cinder (with Héctor Oesterheld) and Perramus (with Juan Sasturain). Carlos Trillo (1943-2011) was an Argentine comic book writer. He began his career in 1973, within the newspaper Satiricon, and met Alberto Breccia, whom he considered him one of his masters the following year.