Perramus

In the late 1980s, Argentine writer Carlos Trillo and legendary Uruguayan artist Alberto Breccia crafted Perramus, a four-issue series for French publisher Glénat that stands as a landmark of political science fiction. Set in a surreal, totalitarian near-future South America, the story follows an amnesiac protagonist known only as Perramus, whose search for identity becomes a haunting allegory for memory, resistance, and the legacy of state terror. Breccia’s expressionistic, collage-like art—blending ink, watercolor, and found imagery—pushes the medium into new visual territory, while Trillo’s script weaves a dense, poetic narrative that refuses easy answers. Though brief, Perramus remains a powerful, artistically daring work that captures the anxieties of a continent under dictatorship.