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The Chronicles of Nyur Nyur is a comic book saga by Pau Arévalo, Xavier Tárrega and Pau Castanyer. Ten years of work, seven titles, two volumes, a trilogy, a parallel series and more on the way... For now it is published in Catalan and Spanish.
Here we will be telling you all about this nyurnyurian adventure.
Synopsis
Sourland, 50 years after the Great Massacre.
Through dark tunnels, Nyur Nyur, a young writehistorian, and Doni, an orphan boy, are fleeing from the threat that wants to wipe humanity off the planet. While they wait for the danger to pass, Nyur Nyur tells her story to the frightened child to try to take his mind off it.
Xam, Aneris and Bastian are the heroes of these chronicles of Nyur Nyur, and the words that make up this tale may be all that is left of civilization when its old paradigm, inevitably, runs out.
Plot
In a world ruled by the morbids, humans infected by a virus that turns them into wild beasts, bloodthirsty and a bit ridiculous, the few uninfected humans left are forced to survive in hiding.
Xam, a boy of about fourteen, and his father, Diogenes, have been thrown out of the bunker where they lived and forced to start a new life outside the safety and protection offered by that precarious, and a bit ridiculous, human community.
Bastian, a morbid who doesn't like being called a morbid, who has been fifteen for thirty years and is smarter than the rest, is trying to find ways to kill time in the monotonous, and a bit ridiculous, morbid society, which doesn't offer many possibilities.
Meanwhile, in Atlantis, the ancient underwater civilization that men believe doesn't exist, Aneris, a teenage mermaid about to become a full citizen, breaks the implacable, ancestral and a bit ridiculous Triton Law by sneaking up to the surface to gaze, curious, at the dry world and enjoy the light of the Sun that bathes it.
The stories of these characters, rejected and alienated by their different backgrounds, will end up coming together into a new story, bigger, brighter and a bit ridiculous, that will change their destinies forever, and that of the whole of Sourland.
The books
We first brought out the books in small print runs with Edicions del despropòsit, in Catalan: Book 1. Paradigm Shift (2020), Maurice (2022), and Book 2. Path to Utopia and Walpurgis (2023). Maurice and Walpurgis are the first two titles of the parallel, companion series Before The Chronicles of Nyur Nyur, which tells the characters' past through new narrators, and which will have more titles.
In 2025, Dolmen Editorial took on the project and planned to publish it in two volumes, in both Spanish and Catalan. The first volume brings together the first three titles, which are now called chapters instead of books. In November 2026 the second volume came out, with the third chapter, The Bucket King, never published before, which closes the trilogy.
2020 | The Chronicles of Nyur Nyur. 1. Paradigm Shift Pau Arévalo, Xavier Tárrega and Pau Castanyer Edicions del despropòsit (in Catalan) |
2022 | Before The Chronicles of Nyur Nyur. Maurice Pau Arévalo, Xavier Tárrega and Pau Castanyer Edicions del despropòsit (in Catalan) |
2023 | The Chronicles of Nyur Nyur. 2. Path to Utopia Pau Arévalo, Xavier Tárrega and Pau Castanyer Edicions del despropòsit (in Catalan) |
2023 | Before The Chronicles of Nyur Nyur. Walpurgis Pau Arévalo and Pau Castanyer Edicions del despropòsit (in Catalan) |
2025 | The Chronicles of Nyur Nyur. Volume 1 Pau Arévalo, Xavier Tárrega and Pau Castanyer Dolmen Editorial · Buy it: Spanish · Catalan Includes: • Paradigm Shift • Before… Maurice • Path to Utopia |
2026 | The Chronicles of Nyur Nyur. Volume 2 Pau Arévalo, Xavier Tárrega and Pau Castanyer Dolmen Editorial · Buy it: Spanish · Catalan Includes: • 3. The Bucket King |
Unpublished | Before The Chronicles of Nyur Nyur. Grimoire Pau Arévalo and Pau Castanyer Work in progress |
Unpublished | Before The Chronicles of Nyur Nyur. The Hummitan Plan Pau Arévalo and Pau Castanyer Work in progress |
Interested in publishing The Chronicles of Nyur Nyur in your language? Download our Foreign Rights dossier (PDF) or write to us at lescroniquesdenyurnyur@gmail.com.
Sample pages
Here are a few sample pages to give you a taste of Xavier Tárrega's artwork and the different styles he uses throughout the saga. There are images from Paradigm Shift, Path to Utopia, Before... Maurice and Before... Walpurgis, the last one drawn by Pau Arévalo in a completely different style. We can't show many more images here, but if you click on them you can read the first 21 pages of Chapter 1. Paradigm Shift in English, which is where it all begins! Enjoy!
Videos
Here's a glimpse of Xavier Tárrega drawing two pages. More videos (the making of, the morbids and other oddities from Sourland) on our YouTube channel, in Spanish.
Chronology
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More Sourland
Over time, the universe of The Chronicles of Nyur Nyur has kept growing in other directions.
Pau Arévalo, who never stops, has found the time to create a spin-off miniseries called Històries de Terragre (Tales of Sourland, in Catalan), an alphabet of short stories from the first thirty years of the apocalypse, which you can read for free in their digital version.
The saga also has an official soundtrack: Ixnay On The Mòrbid, by the band Green Spring. Don't miss it!
And what about merch?! We also have a shop where you can put your nyurnyurian design on a T-shirt, a mug, a print, whatever you like! (Whatever the shop offers, we mean; let's not take it too literally, eh?)
And finally, of course, The Chronicles of Nyur Nyur has an Instagram, in case you want to see how things are going in the strange provinces of Sourland. We feel more at home with the morbids, to be honest, but what can you do...
