6/11/2023 0 Comments Corto maltese![]() ![]() The adventures of this modern Ulysses are set during the first 30 years of the 20th Century in such exotic locales as Pratt’s native Venice, the steppes of Manchuria, the Caribbean islands, the Danakil deserts, the Amazon forests, and the waves of the Pacific.Ĭorto Maltese: Under the Sign of Capricorn collects the first six inter-connected short stories Pratt created in France in the early 1970s: “The Secret of Tristan Bantam,” “Rendez-vous in Bahia,” “Sureshot Samba,” “The Brazilian Eagle,” “So Much for Gentlemen of Fortune,” and “The Seagull’s Fault.” ![]() Hugo Pratt’s peripatetic sailor was featured in a series of 29 stories. Throughout history, he has had feelings for Pandora. Romantic, elegant and ironic, he is quick off the mark. ![]() Due to various circumstances, he became a pirate, then began to work for the Monk with his friend Rasputin. By the mid-1970s Corto was the continent’s most popular series and Hugo Pratt the world’s leading graphic novelist. Corto Maltese: Born in Malta, this sailor has traveled around the world. Corto Maltese set the standard for all adult adventure comics in Europe. Long before the term “graphic novel” entered the popular lexicon-ten years before Will Eisner’s A Contract with God-Hugo Pratt pioneered the long-form “drawn literature” story. This book, the first of 12 volumes, launches the definitive English language edition of Hugo Pratt’s masterpiece, presented in the original oversized B&W format with new translations made from Pratt’s original Italian scripts. ![]()
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