Life of Che is one of the most anticipated entries in Fantagraphics The Alberto Breccia Library. Originally released as part of a graphic biography series in January 1969 it came out in Argentina only a year after Ernesto Che Guevara had died and reached an audience beyond comics readers. In the 1970s the military government raided its publisher destroying the means to reprint the book. The comic was presumed to be lost to history until a publisher in Spain restored it in 1987. It has never been