Juan Salvo, the inimitable protagonist, along with his friend Professor Favalli and the tenacious metal-worker Franco, face what appears to be a nuclear accident, but quickly turns out to be something much bigger than they had imagined. This originally appeared as weekly installments from 1957-59.
Hardcover, 368 pages, B&W, 2015 (originally published 1959) 2016 Eisner Award Winner for Best Archival Collection/Project-Strips! Seminal Argentinian science fiction graphic novel whose main character is still viewed as a symbol of resistance in Latin America. In 2021, he was inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame.By Héctor Germán Oesterheld & Francisco Solano López, translated by Erica Mena. Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s - when Argentina suffered under a series of military dictatorships - and beyond, Breccia drew serialized comics for the European market, working with and adapting writers such as Poe, Lovecraft, Borges, Trillo, Sasturain, and many others. He took a break from comics to teach and co-found the interdisciplinary art school IDA (Instituto de directores de Arte) but returned in 1968 to draw graphic biographies of Che Guevara and Eva Perón, and a reboot of Oesterheld’s seminal 1959 graphic novel, The Eternaut. From 1962–1964, he drew Mort Cinder, written by Héctor Germán Oesterheld, which is considered a masterpiece of the form. His career began in the 1940s, during the golden age of Argentine comics.
1993, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an influential, internationally acclaimed comics artist and cartoonist. Notable works include his science-fiction series El Eternauta, as well as Life of Che, a biography of Che Guevara.Īlberto Breccia (b. Héctor Germán Oesterheld (HGO) (born J"disappeared" by the military and presumed dead 1977), was a pioneering Argentine graphic novel and comics writer.
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