![]() ![]() ![]() “Hugo Pratt is among the greatest storytellers in all of literature, but what’s more, he also draws like a god.”–Milo Manara “Hugo Pratt is one of the true masters of comic art.”–Frank Miller 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. ![]() By the mid-1970s Corto was the continent’s most popular series and Hugo Pratt the world’s leading graphic novelist. 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. Corto Maltese: Under the Sign of Capricorn ![]()
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