Alberto Breccia is recognized as one of the greatest international
cartoonists in the history of comics and Mort Cinder is considered one
of his finest achievements. Created in collaboration with the Argentine
writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld, best known in the U.S. for his
politically incendiary sci-fi masterpiece, the Eisner Award-winning The
Eternaut, Mort Cinder is a horror story with political overtones.
This episodic serial, written and drawn between 1962-1964, is drawn by
Breccia in moody chiaroscuro. The artist's rubbery, expressionistic
faces capture every glint in the eyes of the grave robbers, sailors, and
slaves that populate these stories; while the slash of stripes of
prisoners' uniforms, the trapeziums of Babylon, and more create distinct
and evocative milieus.