Soma Format: Paperback

Maya is a comic book artist in the middle of a creative crisis. She’s constantly stressed about deadlines and feels like she’s not doing the type of work she loves. In between trying to fight her writer’s block and doling out advice to her best friend on how to finally land a date, Maya receives an unexpected visitor: Soma, an extraterrestrial alien who crashlands in Maya’s living room. Soma delivers a message to Maya, warning her that an alien invasion from his own kind is fast approaching, and he needs her help to stop it!

From writer Fernando Llor (Ojos Grises, Subnormal: Una Historia de Acoso Escolar) and writer/illustrator Carles Dalmau (Lucid Lucy, Cult of the Lamb) comes Soma, a science-fiction adventure about creativity and companionship during times of peril.

Fernando Llor has been a comic book writer since 2014. He has published up to 18 different titles in Spain, France, the United States, and Portugal, including Ojos Grises (Panini), El Espíritu del Escorpión (Panini), La Confesión, (The Rocketman Project), Subnormal, Una Historia de Acoso Escolar (Panini), Plot Point (Nuevo Nueve/Retranca), and Humor Artificial (Dolmen). In recent years, he has accumulated different nominations for best national writer at the Carlos Giménez Awards in 2017, 2018, and 2019. He won the award for Best Spanish Writer at the José Sanchis Grau Awards in 2019 and the Splash Award for best script in 2021. He also received an honorable mention as Melhor Roteirista at the Bandas Desenhadas Awards in 2020. He is a founding member of Argh! The Professional Association of Comic Writers, and the Comic Industry Secretorial, and teaches script writing at O Garaxe Hermético in Pontevedra.