Nevertheless, Breccia can’t ever be anything other than a thoughtful illustrator and even muddied portraits shine, while there’s considerable experimentation, not least the novelty of the final pages resembling a film reel passing before the eyes. As with his image, much of Guevara’s life has been mythologised over the years, and a strength Life of Che has is that it’s stripped back from much of the baggage.Įven reproduced from smudgy third-hand sources (all that’s available), the art is remarkable, all the more so for the project being a passion for Oesterheld, but according to the informative background essay from Professor Pablo Turnes, just another job for Breccia. The commercialisation of his image was at first a means of keeping his spirit alive, which was the same approach Héctor Oesterheld and Alberto Breccia took in 1968, the year after Guevara’s death.
Outside Central and South America, history has largely reduced Ernesto “Che” Guevara to an iconic t-shirt design, diminishing his status as an important force for change, most lastingly in Cuba. It contextualises the dangers of two Argentinian creators living under a right wing military dictatorship in the late 1960s celebrating the life of a left-wing revolutionary. The small print at the front of a book is generally of greater interest to librarians and cataloguers than readers, but don’t miss the eight lines noting the publication history opening Life of Che.
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