![]() ![]() It is primarily set in the field and with the people. Enrique draws the Bolivia passages in a woodcut style, while Alberto depicts the flashbacks in his trademark, expressionistic black-and-white. Alberto Breccia and his son, Enrique, drew Life of Che. The book begins in Bolivia in 1967, then flashes back through Che's life - his childhood, his radicalizing motorcycle trip with Alberto Granado, his taking up of arms in Guatemala, his meeting with Fidel Castro, and his subsequent military and political maneuvers, ending in a fade-out to his death. It has never been translated into English until now. The comic was presumed to be lost to history, until a publisher in Spain restored it in 1987. In the 1970s, the military government raided its publisher, destroying the means to reprint the book. ![]() Originally released as part of a graphic biography series in January 1969, it came out in Argentina only a year after Ernesto "Che" Guevara had died and reached an audience beyond comics readers. Life of Che is one of the most anticipated entries in Fantagraphics' The Alberto Breccia Library. ![]()
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