Hector German Oesterheld – författare

WINNER 2016 Eisner Award for Best Archival Collection/Project - Strips. A gathering of neighbors in suburban Buenos Aires is interrupted by an eerie, phosphorescent snowfall. When those outside exposed to the 'snow' start dropping dead, it becomes clear that the harmless-looking 'snow' reflects the vanguard of an alien invasion, and a story of survival, cunning, and armed struggle against them unfurls. The Eternaut was written by the Argentine author Hector German Oesterheld, famous for opposing the military junta in the late '70s, and disappeared, along with his daughters, in 1977, and drawn by Francisco Solano Lopez in an appropriately pulpy, representational style. The story, originally serialized from 1957 to 1959, holds a mirror to Argentine politics, reflecting an era of paranoia, military juntas, and Cold War geopolitics. Encounter the gripping tale that remains a symbol of resistance in Latin America to this day.

Life Of Che was 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. In the 1970s, the military government raided its publisher, destroying the means to reprint the book. The comic was presumed to be lost to history, until a publisher in Spain restored it in 1987. It has never been translated into English until now. Beginning in Bolivia in 1967, it flashes back through Che's life ending in a fade-out to his death.

Published in 1970, Evita: The Life and Work of Eva Peron was daringly intended to be the follow-up to the artists' successful and controversial 1969 graphic biography Life of Che. Hector German Oesterheld plotted the book and the father and son team of Alberto and Enrique Breccia drew the comic - but the text was 'sanitised' before its publication. In 2001, a restored version of Evita featuring Oesterheld's original, uncensored script was finally published in Spanish; it is translated in English here for the first time. In just 72 boldly penned chiaroscuro pages, this graphic biography paints a complex portrait of a pivotal Argentine figure who was at once beloved and reviled by her people. Born in rural Argentina to extreme poverty, she moved to Buenos Aires where she met and married Colonel Peron, who would become president of Argentina. As First Lady, affectionately nicknamed Evita, she devoted herself to social welfare and worker's rights, campaigned for women's suffrage, and became known as 'The Spiritual Leader of the Nation.' While she has been viewed as an international icon, inspiring celebratory works such as Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1976 Broadway show Evita, this biography by her countrymen takes a far more searing and critical approach, chronicling the noble causes she fought for as well as the militarism and oppression of the Peronist regime.