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mburnamfink 's review for:
Che: A Graphic Biography
by Ernie Colón, Sid Jacobson
It's only appropriate that the next book after Guerrilla would be a biography of famous guerrilla warrior Che Guevara. But because I'm slacking this summer, it's a comic book.
So what's to say? Obviously, this book is just the highlights; a series of semi-connected interludes that cast Che in the best possible light. But it also acknowledges his brutal work as a revolutionary executioner, and the failure of his battles after Cuba. The book ends with a brief essay on the meaning of Che's image in an age of commercial reproduction. The end result is a story of a man who wanted to end injustice in the world, and who used violence to achieve this noble goal with decidedly mixed results. It's like Gonick's Cartoon History of the Universe with Socialist Realist art.
So what's to say? Obviously, this book is just the highlights; a series of semi-connected interludes that cast Che in the best possible light. But it also acknowledges his brutal work as a revolutionary executioner, and the failure of his battles after Cuba. The book ends with a brief essay on the meaning of Che's image in an age of commercial reproduction. The end result is a story of a man who wanted to end injustice in the world, and who used violence to achieve this noble goal with decidedly mixed results. It's like Gonick's Cartoon History of the Universe with Socialist Realist art.