Mort Cinder

Alberto Breccia is acknowledged as one of many biggest worldwide cartoonists within the historical past of comics and Mort Cinder is taken into account certainly one of his most interesting achievements. Created in collaboration with the Argentine author Héctor Germán Oesterheld, finest identified within the U.S. for his politically incendiary sci-fi masterpiece, the Eisner Award-winning The Eternaut, Mort Cinder is a horror story with political overtones. This episodic serial, written and drawn between 1962-1964, is drawn by Breccia in moody chiaroscuro. The artist’s rubbery, expressionistic faces seize each glint within the eyes of the grave robbers, sailors, and slaves that populate these tales; whereas the slash of stripes of prisoners’ uniforms, the trapeziums of Babylon, and extra create distinct and evocative milieus.