B. Traven, or Traven Torsvan, or Hal Croves, or Ret Marut, was born in Chicago on May 3, 1890, or in San Francisco on February 25, 1882, or on this latter date but in Schwiebus, Germany. He was an actor, press officer, coal miner, cotton collector, screenwriter, served as his own literary agent (with a false identity) and, above all else, he was a writer. Some thirty identities and half a dozen nationalities were produced. He was imprisoned in several countries and had to steal so as not to starve himself at certain periods of his life. Today his books have been translated into more than 30 languages ​​and his work has sold millions of copies.

Traven was led on the premise that "The important thing in a conference is the speech and not the speaker." This phrase is one of the most representative emblems of his life. He never gave in to the causes that represented him. He was always on the side of the less fortunate. He even went so far as to say: "I consider the Mexican Indians and the Mexican proletariat as my greatest friends," for which reason he asked that his ashes be scattered throughout the Lacandona jungle in Chiapas. He announced the atrocities of capitalism for more than a century by proclaiming it a tireless altercator of peace and, with incredible lucidity, anticipated the lack of autonomy of the media that were beginning to depend on trade patterns to survive.

With this publication, Golo confirms the growing acceptance of the graphic novel as a prestigious literary genre. The profound historical research of the first decades of the twentieth century, the quality of its lines and the narrative tension that it reaches, make up a stupendous work worthy of the genius of B. Traven.