El Cid

Antonio Hernández Palacios, the celebrated Spanish artist, brings his epic, historically-grounded style to this two-issue series published by Carlsen in the early 1980s. Co-written with Ole Steen Hansen, it adapts the legend of the 11th-century Castilian warrior, focusing on the mythic scope and raw detail of his campaigns. Palacios’s grand, cinematic artwork—a hallmark of his career—makes this a striking, if brief, entry in European historical comics.