![]() There’s an interesting essay in the book about the comic’s publication history – it came out less than two years after Guevara’s death, and while the publisher claimed it was simply part of a series of biographies of influential twentieth-century people, the Argentine government, which had taken over in a coup in 1966 and was already teetering, didn’t take too kindly to a book about a noted revolutionary who was still very popular. ![]() The history of this book is fascinating, because a book like this coming out during Argentina’s military junta days is probably going to get some people in trouble, and it did. That’s good, because Breccia was a superb artist, and we get to see that! Life of Che is drawn by Breccia and his son Enrique, and it was written by Héctor Germán Oesterheld. ![]() “Gonna start a revolution from my bed, ’cause you said the brains I had went to my head”įantagraphics has been releasing works by Alberto Breccia, of which this is the fifth. ![]()
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