How to make a revolution with words (and drawings). history, memory and identity in Oesterheld's comics

Héctor German Oesterheld is Argentina's most well-known comic script­ writer, largely because of his El eternauta, widely considered to be his masterpiece. The final period of his production, however (from the late 1960s to his disappearance in 1977), is less well known.' This latter production was strongly influenced by Oesterheld's political radicalization and militancy in the Peronist guerrilla organization Montoneros. During these years Oester­held's publications included some biographical graphic novels (La vida del Che, 1968; Evita: Vida y obra de Eva Peron, 1970), a new and more politicized version of the first part of El eternauta, its sequel (El eternauta II), and two comics that had been published serially in a daily paper and a weekly mag­azine connected with Montoneros: Latinoamerica y el imperialismo: 450 anos de guerra and La guerra de las Antartes.