Héctor Germán Oesterheld’s pulp adventures won him a devoted following—and made him a target of Argentina’s junta.
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Oesterheld was born in Buenos Aires on July 23, 1919. He published prose and children’s books, but the bulk of his work is in comics, often calledin Spanish, literally “little stories.” He liked the way that the form transgressed the border between high and low art. Before he started writing comics, Oesterheld worked for Argentina’s Industrial Credit Bank as a precious-metals specialist, in Patagonia.
Juan falls in with a group of soldiers planning a counter-offensive, and one of them is a writer, a pathetic specimen of a journalist named Mosca , who is always trying to document the momentous battles as they’re being fought. This, too, is probably a self-deprecating self-portrait. “How goes the history, Mosca, my friend?” Juan, now a lieutenant, asks his frantically scribbling squad-mate. “Too fast, Lieutenant,” Mosca answers. “So many things have happened, I haven’t had time to write them.
Álvarez’s fears were well founded. “Che” was denounced almost as soon as it was published. “It has been drawn in the darkest and crudest shades, typical of passé revolutionary positions,” an editorial published on January 10th of that year inread. According to Enrique Breccia, the S.I.E., Argentina’s Army intelligence service, raided Álvarez’s company, breaking the printing plates and destroying copies of the book.
Perón emerged from exile, in 1973, buoyed by a fragile alliance between the left and right flanks of the movement that he had founded. The day that he was scheduled to land in Buenos Aires, right-wing Perónists—organized in part by José López Rega, an official who would go on to join Perón’s new Administration—opened fire on the leftist Perónists in the crowds assembled to welcome Perón back into the country.
On June 19, 1976, after having tea with Elsa, Oesterheld’s nineteen-year-old daughter, Beatriz, was kidnapped. On August 7th, her sister Diana, twenty-three years old and pregnant, disappeared. Oesterheld himself managed to avoid capture for eight more months. When he saw his friends, they said he changed his appearance. He grew a long beard.
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