I met Laura when we were both studying Fine Arts in Barcelona, in the mid-seventies. Years later we met again when she started drawing for the magazine El Víbora and I was in charge of production and design.
She receives me at her studio in Ciutat Vella, full of books and brushes, and we remember old times, of course, and common friends.
Laura speaks with the same confidence and determination that can be seen in her drawings. Strong lines, but delicate and clean, that perfectly illustrate the fears, pleasures, beauty and passions that feed her characters.
> Laura Pérez Vernetti has a degree in Fine Arts, is a comic author, illustrator and photographer. As a comic author she has drawn stories with her own scripts and has worked with scriptwriters such as Onliyú, J. M. Lo Duca, Carlos Sampayo, Antonio Altarriba and, above all, Felipe Hernández Cava.
During the 80's she published her comics in the magazine El Víbora.
She has published, among other albums: El toro blanco, with script by J.M. Lo Duca, Markheim by R. L. Stevenson, Las habitaciones desmanteladas in which he adapts literary works such as Maupassant, De Quincey, Dylan Thomas, etc., Macandé, with script by Hernández Cava, Las mil y una noches, adapted by Lo Duca, No Ballena, tales by Saki, Susana with her own script, Amores Locos and El brillo del gato negro, both with script by Antonio Altarriba, and Sarà servito, with script by Felipe Hernández Cava.
She has adapted to the comic language literature and poets such as Dostoyevski, Hawthorne, Marcel Schwob, Kafka, Joyce, Saki, Aristotle, Apuleius, De Quincey, Dylan Thomas, Maupassant, Stevenson, Pessoa, Maiakoski, among others.
Pioneer author in the new genre of Graphic Poetry, for ten years she has published nine comics of this new language, with the publishers Luces de Gálibo and Reino de Cordelia.
In 2019 she publishes the graphic novel Las vidas imaginarias de Schwob, an adaptation in the language of comics of the masterpiece of the French writer Marcel Schwob.
She is currently working on a graphic novel scripted by Javier Pérez Andújar.
She has published her work in France, Italy, Spain, Argentina, Sweden, England, Germany, Mexico and Portugal.
In 2017 she received the Trueno de Honor Award for Lifetime Achievement at the XX Jornadas del Cómic almeriense.
In 2018 she received the Grand Prize at the 36 Saló Internacional del Cómic de Barcelona awarded "to a career in which Laura Pérez Vernetti has always bet on groundbreaking comics that seek new aesthetic and narrative forms".