Local filmmaker Susan Stern tipped me off to “Che: A Graphic Biography,” a recently published book by her cartoonist husband Spain Rodriguez. While Steven Soderbergh’s film “Che: Part One” has gotten mixed reviews on the festival circuit, the biography is one piece of media that provides an indisputably great snapshot of the Argentine Marxist revolutionary’s life and death.
Rodriguez, one of the original members of Zap Comics with Robert Crumb, lovingly illustrates the life of Ernesto “Che” Guevara in the tradition of underground political comics. You’ll find details on parts of his life you’ve heard about (Latin American motorcycle adventures, leadership in Fidel Castro’s revolutionary movement) and many you haven’t (severe bouts of asthma, extensive African travels).
[...] Precita Eyes Muralists and includes essays from Shepard Fairey and Spain Rodriguez, the author of “Che: A Graphic Biography.” You can celebrate the colorful body of work at the DeYoung’s free Friday Night series on [...]