This book, the first of twelve volumes, launches the definitive
English-language edition of Hugo Pratt's masterpiece, presented in the
original oversized B&W format and with new translations made from
Pratt's original Italian scripts. Frank Miller calls Pratt "one of the
true masters of comic art." 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. Corto
Maltese set the standard for all adult adventure comics in Europe. By
the mid-1970s, Corto was the continent's most popular series and Hugo
Pratt the world's leading graphic novelist. Hugo Pratt's peripatetic
sailor was featured in a series of twenty-nine stories. The adventures
of this modern Ulysses are set during the first thirty 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. EuroComics is working closely
with Patrizia Zanotti, Pratt's long-time collaborator, to present the
complete Corto Maltese in a series of twelve quality trade paperbacks in
Pratt's original oversized B&W format. Corto 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."
Out Dec. 16, 2014
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