El Tajo

A gritty, politically charged crime saga set in the underbelly of Buenos Aires, El Tajo ran for ten issues from 1991 to 1992 from Argentine publisher Ediciones Récord. The series is most associated with its writer, Carlos Trillo, and artist, Alberto Breccia, whose stark, expressionistic artwork gave the story of a hitman confronting his past a haunting, cinematic quality. It stands as a landmark of Argentine comics, blending hardboiled noir with social commentary during the country's post-dictatorship era.