Jon Lee Anderson is the author of The Fall of
Baghdad, Guerrillas, The Lion's Grave, and Che
Guevara: A Revolutionary Life. His reporting led to the discovery
of Che's skeletal remains thirty years after their secret burial in
Bolivia. He is a New Yorker staff writer, and has
reported frequently from Latin America and from war zones around
the world. Anderson has written profiles of Augusto Pinochet, Fidel
Castro, Hugo Chavez, and Gabriel García Márquez. He is at work on a
book about Fidel Castro and modern Cuba.
José Hernández is a political cartoonist for La
Jornada, the weekly Proceso, and the magazine El Chamuco
y los hijos del Averno. He is a recipient of el Premio Nacional de
Periodismo, the National Journalism Award of Mexico.
One of the Comic Journal’s Best Comics of 2018
“A remarkable accomplishment, one that belongs next to such works
of graphical history as the March series and Shigeru Mizuki's Showa
books. By foregrounding the tension between myth and truth, Che
illuminates the present state of our politics as well as the past.”
—NPR
“An amazing feat. . . . [Che] belongs in every library collection
and on the shelves of any store with an audience for serious
graphic non-fiction.”—ICv2
“A visual triumph.”—Kirkus
“Gorgeously illustrated and engrossing. . . . Guevara’s life makes
for both a breathtaking adventure story and a sobering history that
readers are sure to embrace with enthusiasm.”—Library Journal
“Spectacularly illustrated. . . . From [Che’s] comfortable
Argentine birth, medical training, and peripatetic commitment to
fighting capitalist U.S. imperialism to his assassination, Anderson
and Hernández turn myth into man. . . . Author and artist deftly
balance Che’s revolutionary idealism with his failures in
leadership, his arrogance, his familial inadequacies. Affecting
moments are many, including even the origin story of Che’s
emblematic beret.”—Booklist
“A cinematic approach chips away at the myths and misunderstandings
that still surround the life of Che Guevara, the famed doctor
turned revolutionary, in this in-depth graphic novel adaptation of
Anderson’s exhaustive biography. . . . Adding warmth to the
exhaustive research drawn from letters, newspapers and official
documents are Che’s writings to his mother.”—Publishers Weekly
[Hernández’s] artwork stuns with cinematic precision and
photographic detail. This book puts readers in the thick of the
South American and Caribbean jungles, where the Cuban revolution
was won. Scenes of bullets whizzing by Che and his guerilla
fighters provide tension and immediacy, while close-ups that focus
on the speakers and blur background details lend the narrative a
documentary feel. . . . A stunning graphic adaptation of Jon Lee
Anderson's biography of Che.”—Shelf Awareness
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