Rocco Vargas

Daniel Torres’s Rocco Vargas is a stylish, retro-futurist series from Spain, launched in 2001 and ongoing through multiple editions. Torres writes and illustrates the adventures of its titular hero, a suave architect and adventurer navigating a richly imagined 1930s-inspired world of flying cars and chrome-plated cities. The series matters for its singular, painterly art deco aesthetic and its sustained, personal vision as a creator-owned project from a single, celebrated talent.