10 Comics That Broke All The Rules
1. La Vida Del Ché (1968)
While all of the comics featured on this list broke a rule of some kind, at the end of the day, the frustrated writers and artists went home to fight another day. The same cannot be said of Hector Oesterheld, the man who published La Vida Del Ché (Che's Life) in 1968.
At the time, Oesterheld was widely regarded as Argentina's greatest comic book writer and publisher, but as the 1960s progressed, he became more and more political. His real problem began when he published Che's Life, as it was a biography of Ché Guevera, an Argentine Marxist revolutionary whose image has appeared as a symbol of various counterculture movements since the 1960s.
By 1976, Argentina underwent a military coup, and Oesterheld and his family became affiliated with the banned anti-government group, the Montoneros. At this time, he began working on a new story critical of Argentina's new leader, but it was his biography on Ché Guevera that brought about his eventual downfall.
At the end of '76, Oesterheld was arrested along with his four daughters, and they were never seen again. An Italian journalist investigated his fate years later, and was allegedly told by a government official that "We did away with him because he wrote the most beautiful story of Ché Guevera ever done."