Le Dégoût

Title: El Asco (Le Dégoût  - The Disgust)
Script: Diego Agrimbau. Art: Dante Ginevra
Format: Graphic Novel. 74 pages.
Readership: +18
Genre: Romance / Grotesque / Slice of Life
Editions: Domus (Argentina). Insula (France).
Foreign Rights: Free for every country except France.
Prizes: - "Prix Les BDs qui font la différence" - Le Dégoût. France, 2014.  - "Premio Dany The Oro, Drama"  - Le Dégoût. Argentina, 2007.

Storyline:

Set against the backdrop of everyday life in a traditional Buenos Aires neighborhood, this story delves into the tormented amorous obsession of Daniel, an unhappy and physically deformed man, for Natalia, a beautiful and slender young woman who happens to be his next-door neighbor. What Daniel doesn't know is that Natalia is blind.

Daniel is marked by a cruel loneliness, an immeasurable sadness, and a deep-seated self-loathing. He grapples between resigned contemplation and the impotent paralysis of being unable to communicate his feelings to Natalia. We are drawn into a poignant, intimate narrative of raw suffering, rooted in a pathological fear of rejection. This fear envelops him in a constant state of dread, fueled by his feelings of inferiority and emotional helplessness in the face of the young, beautiful woman he loves with an ardent passion and a painful, visceral humanity.

The narrative rhythm mirrors Daniel's palpable emotional tension, carefully paced with a slow-burning plot that immerses the reader in a dense atmosphere of daily anguish, fear, and desolation. Daniel's distorted perception is masterfully underscored by the art of Dante Ginevra, whose illustrative style reflects Daniel's constant introspection. The art graphically portrays his low self-esteem, projecting his anxious gaze onto a twisted and heartbreaking reality.

Design Principle:

Daniel is crossing a street. A route. A look. He fears. He hides. He cries. Misfortune is a capsule where he has found an unworthy but warm shelter. His obsession is the only force that he has to move, to start walking forward. He crosses the street for the first time. And then, he meets Natalia. They both have one thing in common: their canes. He is crippled. She is blind. Daniel knows he is getting into something strange. Something that look like a romance, but it’s not. It is a personal and silent descent into their true monstrosity. “The Disgust” is a little story that extends into the vastness of two apartments, in the privacy of a normal street in a normal neighborhood, in a normal city, between two very strange people.