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First page from EL ETERNAUTA II, by Hector German Oesterheld and Francisco Solano Lopez.
The page features an italian lettering, due to the series having been finally published in Italy within LANCIOSTORY magazine during years 1978-1979.
Here, Juan Salvo, his wife, his daughter and Oesterheld himself (again as a character, this time in the role of narrator) appear in a distant, post-apocalyptic future, where they help the few survivors to confront the ‘Ello’ of an inaccessible fortress. Oesterheld wrote the story from clandestinity, until he was kidnapped by the National Reorganisation Process and became "desaparecido".
The story was completed normally, but the cartoonist has expressed doubts as to whether the last scripts were Oesterheld's own work or that of someone who took his place.
The page features an italian lettering, due to the series having been finally published in Italy within LANCIOSTORY magazine during years 1978-1979.
Here, Juan Salvo, his wife, his daughter and Oesterheld himself (again as a character, this time in the role of narrator) appear in a distant, post-apocalyptic future, where they help the few survivors to confront the ‘Ello’ of an inaccessible fortress. Oesterheld wrote the story from clandestinity, until he was kidnapped by the National Reorganisation Process and became "desaparecido".
The story was completed normally, but the cartoonist has expressed doubts as to whether the last scripts were Oesterheld's own work or that of someone who took his place.
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About Francisco Solano Lopez
Francisco Solano López (October 26, 1928 – August 12, 2011) was a comics artist. Acknowledged as one of the most influential Argentine comics artists, he was best known as the co-creator of El Eternauta.
López began his career in 1953 working for the publishing house Columba where he illustrated the series Perico y Guillerma. Working for Editorial Abril he met Héctor Germán Oesterheld, assigned to illustrate his series Bull Rocket for the magazine Misterix. They collaborated on the series Pablo Maran and Uma-Uma, before joining to start Oesterheld's publishing house Editorial Frontera. For the Frontera first publication of the monthly Hora Cero, the team produced the series Rolo el marciano adoptivo and El Héroe. López also alternated as artist on the Ernie Pike series with Hugo Pratt, Jorge Moliterni and José Antonio Muñoz. On September 4, 1957 in the publication of Hora Cero Suplemento Semanal, the science-fiction series El Eternauta made its first appearance.
