Ivan Ilyich is an official of the Tsarist administration whose main aspiration, like that of his colleagues, is to climb the rungs in his career to maintain his well-being and thus continue to be part of the bourgeois world in which he has always lived. Married for convenience, he soon discovers the boredom that the family produces and focuses his life on work. A monotonous existence that changes suddenly with the arrival of an important character in his life ...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Russian: Смерть Ивана Ильича, romanized: Smert' Ivána Ilyicha), first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, considered one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s.

Agustín Comotto (Buenos Aires, 1968). He learned to draw comics from Alberto Breccia and Leopoldo Durañona, publishing for various media in Argentina and the United States. Since the 90's he has dedicated himself exclusively to the field of illustration as an illustrator and author. He has books published in Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina, Spain, Korea, and Italy. In 2000 he received the "At the edge of the Wind" award from the Fondo de Cultura Económica publishing house and in 2001 the White Raven mention for the album Siete million Escarabajos, of which he is the author and illustrator. Since 1999 he lives in Corbera de Llobregat, a town near Barcelona. In Nordic he has illustrated The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Wonderful Story of Peter Schlemihl and The Fall of the House of Usher.