Laura Pérez, the Spanish hand behind Selena Gómez in 'Only murders in the building'

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When in 2020

, the album she was working on at the time, to her Instagram profile

, she could not imagine that that routine publication on her social network would give her the opportunity to create the graphic universe of a series of TV.

All the stylized New York imagery that surrounds

whose second season Disney + has just released, has been created from Valencia by this illustrator, one of the essential names of current Spanish comics.

Seeing on Instagram that drawing of a girl leaning out of a window, Lisa Bolan, creative director of Elastic, the studio behind the credit titles of series like

wrote him a direct message to propose him to participate in the project of Only murders in the building.

"There's an amazing serendipity to this creative stuff that I've totally relied on since I started on this.

Suddenly, something you discard works for others.

because I had never done a job of that kind, "he explains by video call from his studio, with half of his right hand wrapped in the special glove -" I always forget that I wear it, sometimes I go down to the street with it on »- that he uses to draw more comfortably on your iPad.

The illustrator Laura Pérez. THE WORLD

Bolan and Pérez together designed a proposal based on a certain fifties aesthetic, inspired by the work of

magazine ,

whose characteristic typography precisely recreates the titles of the series.

And bathed in the characteristic orange light that dominates the color palette of an artist whose favorite moment to draw is that “when there is little light outside but it is already necessary to turn on the interior”.

An evocative tableau about loneliness and intimacy in the big city that activates all the reminiscences that the viewer can associate with the refined and upper-bourgeois Upper West Side of some of

And that drinks from the influence of colleagues like Manuele Fior or Richard McGuire.

Accustomed to a solitary and self-sufficient job, Laura Pérez was involved overnight in a maelstrom of video calls with New York and Los Angeles.

“When I happily accepted the assignment, partly because of its challenge, I had no idea what I was getting myself into.

During the development of the credits, on the fly, an additional project arose: to make the drawings that in fiction come from the hand of Mabel, the character played by

Including the

that he paints on one of the walls of his apartment to try to clarify the crime that articulates the plot of the first season.

The challenge then forked into two different jobs, one for Elastic and the other for the producer of the series.

«For the titles I had to make a huge number of elements of the building as well as several drawings of each of the characters, as well as small details that differentiate the header of each chapter and that are not always easy to see with the naked eye.

And at the same time I started working with the team on the series, through producer

to draw the sketches that appear in Mabel's notebooks and finally the mural of the apartment».

It was like participating remotely in the filming, as an artistic double for Selena Gómez.

An exciting job and, again, a bit blind.

“They ask me for elements to incorporate into each chapter, and I don't know why I'm drawing one thing or another, I don't know why I'm drawing them.

What is it about?

I have no idea".

Anyone who has seen

will have a hard time imagining that the majestic mural painted by Mabel in her apartment, which represents the residents of the imaginary Arconia building where the plot unfolds through the windows of their apartments, was entirely made by Laura Pérez from Valencia on his iPad.

«They sent me photographs of the set so that I could see the dimensions and the arrangement of the furniture.

I think that once the mural was printed on the wall the drawings were retouched by someone, like when a muralist is given a project to execute.

When you are a cartoonist you notice the slightest change, and I have noticed there the hand of another artist».

Recently included in the repertoire of the

published by Lunwerg and in

Norma Editorial's Queens of 21st-century

, this summer in Astiberri , after the success of her first solo graphic novel ,

(2019) and

(2021), the project that he combined with the drawings for Only murders in the building.

«A reflective work, opposite to that of the series, which served me as an escape route to release stress» from a shoot that she did not attend but in which she was very present.

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