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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."
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