#the Eternaut

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El Eternauta (The Eternaut) (Héctor Germán Oesterheld) "Juan Salvo, the inimitable protagonist, along with his friend Professor Favalli and the tenacious metal-worker Franco, face what appears to be a nuclear accident, but quickly turns out to be something much bigger than they had imagined. Cold War tensions, aliens of all sizes, space―and time travel―this one has it all."

Dagon (H.P. Lovecraft) "Link

The narrator tells of being on a cargo ship that was captured by a German sea-raider in the Pacific. He would eventually escape and drift until he found himself a “black mire”, which was full of rotting fish and more foul stenches. The things that he witnesses in the vast expanse drive him to madness, and eventually he kills himself rather than face the creatures he witnessed there."

#vast poll #the vast #poll #the magnus archives #leitner tournament #El Eternauta #The Eternaut #Héctor Germán Oesterheld #Dagon #H.P. Lovecraft

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#el eternauta #the eternaut #fantagraphics books #graphic novel #graphic novels #poll

[fipindustries]

It's here, it's finally fucking here, after decades and decades of waiting it's finally here.

For those non Argentinians, this is on par with the sandman getting adapted, or watchmen or any grand comic masterpiece. We are finally getting our turn

#The eternaut #Youtube

[igetnerdy]

#el eternauta #eternauta #the eternaut #oesterheld #hector german oesterheld #lopez #francisco solano lopez #masterpiece #comics #desaparecidos #ai art #artists on tumblr #illustrator #inspiration

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(request by anon)

#the eternaut #el eternauta #argentina #comic poll #dc poll #poll #not a lot of tags here

[metabotulism]

#the eternaut #eternauta #comics

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Netflix is adapting the Eternaut.I have this book and it’s great.

An Alien invasion that happens in the 1950’s that starts out as a heavy snow.

#the eternaut #horror books

[curtvilescomic]

Eternaut homage by Massimo Carnevale

#comics #Eternaut #Massimo Carnevale

[quasi-normalcy]

A while ago while I was in tumblr jail, you posted that you had a masters in science fiction literature (unless you didn't, I have been known to be mistaken), and I am wondering, what do you consider 'important' works of science fiction? Like the science fiction literary canon? I am so curious. Feel free to ignore, I will not harass you.

Yes! I do. I can tell you the ones that I was assigned (I'm afraid that the list skews extremely male and (especially) white).

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)

Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men (1930) and Star Maker (1937) [You can probably add Odd John (1935) to this list]

Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864) and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870) [You can probably add From the Earth to the Moon (1865)]

H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895) and War of the Worlds (1897) [Though you can probably go ahead and add The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897) and The First Men in the Moon (1901)]

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland (1915)

Catherine Burdekin (writing as Murray Constantine), Swastika Night (1937)

Karel Čapek, R.U.R. (1920)

Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (1950) [You can probably add the first three Foundation novels here as well]

Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (1921)

George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1967) and Rendezvous with Rama (1973) [Add: Childhood's End (1953) and The Fountains of Paradise (1979)

John Wyndham, Day of the Triffids (1951) [add: The Chrysalids (1955) and The Midwich Cuckoos (1957)]

H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu" (1926) [add The Shadow over Innsmouth (1931)]

Richard Matheson, I Am Legend (1954)

Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination (1956)

Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers (1959) [Probably Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966) too, depending on, you know, how much of Heinlein's bullshit you can take]

J.G. Ballard, The Drowned World (1962) [Also, The Burning World (1964) and The Crystal World (1966)]

Phillip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle (1962) [Also Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) and several of his short stories]

Frank Herbert, Dune (1965)

Michael Moorcock, Behold the Man (1969)

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-5 (1969)

Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974) [Also The Lathe of Heaven (1971) and The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)]

Brian Aldiss, Supertoys series

William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984)

Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (1992) [Also Green Mars and Blue Mars]

They also included Iain M. Banks's The Algebraist (2004), but I personally think you'd be better off reading some of his Culture novels

Other ones that I might add (not necessarily my favourite, just what I would consider the most influential):

Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (1974)

Matsamune Shiro, Ghost in the Shell (1989-91)

Katsuhiro Otomo, Akira (1982-1990)

Octavia Butler, Lilith's Brood (1987-89) and Parable of the Sower (1993)

Poul Anderson, Operation Chaos (1971)

Hector Garman Oesterheld & Francisco Solano Lopez, The Eternaut (1957-59)

Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem (2008)

Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975)

William Hope Hodgson, The House on the Borderland (1908)

Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (1992)

Joanna Russ, The Female Man (1975)

Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game (1985) [Please take this one from a library]

Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (1912)

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (1985) and Oryx and Crake (2003)

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932)

Osamu Tezuka, Astro Boy (1952-68)

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time (1962)

Walter M. Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959)

Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)

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"Comics’ Own Martyr: Héctor Oesterheld’s Life and Death"

In 1977 Oesterheld—Argentinian writer, famed creator of The Eternaut, and member of the Montoneros guerrilla group—disappeared. Read more about this revolutionary comics writer on The Coop Journal.

#héctor oesterheld #comics #comic art #comic books #comic artist #cartoonist #argentina #argentinian art #argentinian literature

[nicanario]

ok so I'm going to share a mini-comic I made when the pandemic started (translation and explanation below):

The Coronaut: "I'm on Earth, I presume?"

"I come from 2020, what year is this?"

Oesterheld: "Mid 2019..."

The Coronaut: "Then... then if we're in 2019 it means that I can... that I can go hoard hand alcohol!" so, this was a parody of a GREAT graphic novel from mid-20th century Argentina, The Eternaut. you should definitely check it out, there are English translations. it literally featured a catastrophe (though this time, it was aliens) and people having to cover themselves when going outside because of the danger of death, and it was mildly talked about when lockdown began.

my comic basically emulated the first and last scene, where the Eternaut materialises in the comic writer's work room and talks with him, finally realising he can still save his family.

#read it if you like doctor who #the eternaut #eternaut #eternauta #el eternauta #covid #covid-19 #pandemic

[fipindustries]

Omg!!! One of my favourite youtubers is making a video about one of my favourite comics from my country!!!

#In reality he was killed by the genocidal dictatorship of the time because he and his four daughters #Were part of a resistance group called montoneros #But yeah his political messages in his comics didnt help #More people need to talk about the eternaut for fucks sake #The eternaut

[zafnat-panea]

So TGWDLM is about a middle aged man that has to fight against an alien invasion- due to an unknown object- alongside his friends. It also has militars and there's some criticism about American society (*cough cough "America Is Great Again"*), and no matter how hard the protagonist tries, he and his friends end up losing the battle and all hope.

Nobody: ...................

....................

Me, an argentinian: Why does this remind me of "The Eternaut"?

#TGWDLM #Starkid #Like seriously #how didn't I realise this sooner? #the guy who didn't like musicals #The Eternaut #el eternauta #sorry not sorry #Probably no one will know what I'm talking abou

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El Eternauta / The Eternaut - written by Héctor Germán Oesterheld with art by Francisco Solano López.

The Eternaut: Why You Should Be Reading It by Andrew Reynolds

#Héctor Germán Oesterheld #Francisco Solano López #Editorial Frontera #El Eternauta #The Eternaut #Comics #Science Fiction

[metabotulism]

#alberto breccia #the eternaut #el eternauta #héctor germán oesterheld #comics #graphic novel #terror gland

[akirakan]

Oh hey, someone talking about The Eternaut!

Undoubtedly a landmark in latin american comic book culture. And holy shit, this version looks gorgeous! I would love to have one myself! 

#The Eternaut