FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Our final exclusive preview today for our August celebrations of Fantagraphics’ 50th birthday. Bringing both translated work and classic comics from yesteryear to new readerships are two staples of Fantagraphics’ output so it seems particularly appropriate to be finishing the month on this.
SHERLOCK TIME
by Alberto Breccia & Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Translator: Erica Mena
The first collaboration between the legendary creative duo of Oesterheld and Breccia.
In 1958, established Argentine comics creators Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Alberto Breccia worked together on their first significant series. In Sherlock Time, retiree Julio Luna buys a beautiful home for much too good a deal. There have been strange disappearances, but the trap is far stranger than a simple haunting in San Isidro. Fortunately for Luna, a mysterious man saves him in the nick of … Sherlock Time! The two team up, outwitting aliens, solving seemingly-supernatural crimes, and investigating cursed objects. These episodic adventures, ranging from SF to horror to mystery, ran concurrently with Oesterheld’s legendary comics serial The Eternaut, and set the stage for their masterpiece, Mort Cinder. Of Sherlock Time, Argentine author Juan Sasturain (who also wrote Perramus, which Breccia would go on to draw) concluded: “rarely has a story made us so fully happy.”
Fantagraphics at 50 Month runs through August at Broken Frontier. You can see articles as they’re published in one tagged list here.
