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I read the comic and the book, wow, what a grueling life. Was all over the place, starting around Bialystok, which I heard first because of the repressive operation by that name and the caravan in solidarity with them in Italy. Then Argentina, Uruguay, then Spain where he fought in the civil war, then France, and the Mexico.

Though the comic is overall it's okay, and I'd hand it to any kid if I had it in print, it suffers from the author's decision to use the invented character of Lyudmyla as the main plot device! So much of the comic, from beginning to end, is spent on Radowitzky obsessing over her, a girl he met as a child, all the way up until his old age. It's almost as if anarchism was an accidental thing, while her being his main obsession in life. She's used as this cheesy tragic impossible love romantic plot arc, not as a fleshed out character, and she's just a made up thing out of the author's caprice. And all the while Radowitzky is just portrayed as an expressionless stoic husk of suffering.