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Corto Maltese #2.1
Corto Maltese - Karibialainen sarja
Corto Maltese ja hänen ystävänsä lähtevät vaiheikkaalle matkalle, mammonan ja magian jäljille, kohti Brasiliaa. Edessä on uusia aarteita ja uusia maailmoja, ja laivan nimi on Dreaming boy.
Albumi sisältää tarinat Tristan Bantamin salaisuus, Tapaaminen Bahiassa ja Tarkan Laukauksen samba, jotka ilmestyvät nyt ensi kertaa suomeksi nelivärisinä. Ne on julkaistu alun perin ranskaksi vuonna 1979 ja suomeksi mustavalkoisina albumissa Kauriin merkin alla (1996).
Albumin on suomentanut ja tähän värilliseen laitokseen tarkistanut Heikki Kaukoranta. Mukana on myös Marco Steinerin alkusanat.
Albumi sisältää tarinat Tristan Bantamin salaisuus, Tapaaminen Bahiassa ja Tarkan Laukauksen samba, jotka ilmestyvät nyt ensi kertaa suomeksi nelivärisinä. Ne on julkaistu alun perin ranskaksi vuonna 1979 ja suomeksi mustavalkoisina albumissa Kauriin merkin alla (1996).
Albumin on suomentanut ja tähän värilliseen laitokseen tarkistanut Heikki Kaukoranta. Mukana on myös Marco Steinerin alkusanat.
94 pages, Paperback
First published October 9, 2006
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Hugo Pratt
721 books418 followersHugo Pratt, born Ugo Eugenio Prat (1927–1995), was an Italian comic book writer and artist. Internationally known for Corto Maltese, a series of adventure comics first published in Italy and France between 1967 and 1991, Pratt is regarded as a pioneer of the literary graphic novel.
Born in Rimini, Italy, Pratt spent his childhood in Venice in a cosmopolitan family environment. In 1937, ten-years old Hugo moved with his parents to Ethiopia, East Africa, following the Italian occupation of the country. Pratt's father eventually died as a prisoner of war in 1942. Hugo himself and his mother spent some time in a British prison camp in Africa, before being sent back to Venice. This childhood experiences shaped Pratt's fascination with military uniforms, machineries and settings, a visual constant in most of his adult works.
As a young artist in post-war Italy, Pratt was part of the so-called 'Venice Group', which also included cartoonists Alberto Ongaro, Mario Faustinelli. Their magazine Asso di Picche, launched in 1945, mostly featured adventure comics.
In 1949 Pratt moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he worked for various local publishers and interacted with well-known Argentine cartoonists, most notably Alberto Breccia and Solano López, while also teaching at the Escuela Panamericana de Arte. During this period he produced his first notable comic books: Sgt. Kirk and Ernie Pike, written by Héctor Germán Oesterheld; Anna nella jungla, Capitan Cormorant and Wheeling, as a complete author.
From the summer of 1959 to the summer of 1960, Pratt lived in London drawing war comics by British scriptwriters for Fleetway Publications. He returned to Argentina for a couple more years, then moved back to Italy in 1962. Here he started collaborating with the comics magazine Il Corriere dei Piccoli, for which he adapted several classics, including works by Robert Louis Stevenson.
In 1967, Hugo Pratt and entrepreneur Florenzo Ivaldi created the comics magazine Il Sergente Kirk, named after one of Pratt's original characters. Pratt's most famous work, Una ballata del mare salato (1967, The Ballad of the Salty Sea) was serialised in the pages of this magazine. The story can be seen as one of the first modern graphic novels. It also introduced Pratt's best known character, mariner and adventurer Corto Maltese. Corto became the protagonist of its own series three years later in the French comics magazine Pif gadget. Pratt would continue releasing new Corto Maltese books every few years until 1991. Corto's stories are set in various parts of the world, in a given moment in the first three decades of the 20th century. They often tangently deal with real historical events or real historical figures. The series gave Pratt international notoriety, being eventually translated into fifteen languages.
Pratt's other works include Gli scorpioni del deserto (1969-1992), a series of military adventures set in East Africa during WWII, and a few one-shots published for Bonelli's comic magazine Un Uomo Un'Avventura ('One Man One Adventure'), most notably the short story Jesuit Joe (1980, The Man from the Great North). He also scripted a couple of stories for his pupil Milo Manara.
Pratt lived in France from 1970 to 1984, then in Switzerland till his death from bowel cancer in 1995.
Born in Rimini, Italy, Pratt spent his childhood in Venice in a cosmopolitan family environment. In 1937, ten-years old Hugo moved with his parents to Ethiopia, East Africa, following the Italian occupation of the country. Pratt's father eventually died as a prisoner of war in 1942. Hugo himself and his mother spent some time in a British prison camp in Africa, before being sent back to Venice. This childhood experiences shaped Pratt's fascination with military uniforms, machineries and settings, a visual constant in most of his adult works.
As a young artist in post-war Italy, Pratt was part of the so-called 'Venice Group', which also included cartoonists Alberto Ongaro, Mario Faustinelli. Their magazine Asso di Picche, launched in 1945, mostly featured adventure comics.
In 1949 Pratt moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he worked for various local publishers and interacted with well-known Argentine cartoonists, most notably Alberto Breccia and Solano López, while also teaching at the Escuela Panamericana de Arte. During this period he produced his first notable comic books: Sgt. Kirk and Ernie Pike, written by Héctor Germán Oesterheld; Anna nella jungla, Capitan Cormorant and Wheeling, as a complete author.
From the summer of 1959 to the summer of 1960, Pratt lived in London drawing war comics by British scriptwriters for Fleetway Publications. He returned to Argentina for a couple more years, then moved back to Italy in 1962. Here he started collaborating with the comics magazine Il Corriere dei Piccoli, for which he adapted several classics, including works by Robert Louis Stevenson.
In 1967, Hugo Pratt and entrepreneur Florenzo Ivaldi created the comics magazine Il Sergente Kirk, named after one of Pratt's original characters. Pratt's most famous work, Una ballata del mare salato (1967, The Ballad of the Salty Sea) was serialised in the pages of this magazine. The story can be seen as one of the first modern graphic novels. It also introduced Pratt's best known character, mariner and adventurer Corto Maltese. Corto became the protagonist of its own series three years later in the French comics magazine Pif gadget. Pratt would continue releasing new Corto Maltese books every few years until 1991. Corto's stories are set in various parts of the world, in a given moment in the first three decades of the 20th century. They often tangently deal with real historical events or real historical figures. The series gave Pratt international notoriety, being eventually translated into fifteen languages.
Pratt's other works include Gli scorpioni del deserto (1969-1992), a series of military adventures set in East Africa during WWII, and a few one-shots published for Bonelli's comic magazine Un Uomo Un'Avventura ('One Man One Adventure'), most notably the short story Jesuit Joe (1980, The Man from the Great North). He also scripted a couple of stories for his pupil Milo Manara.
Pratt lived in France from 1970 to 1984, then in Switzerland till his death from bowel cancer in 1995.
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July 12, 2023
Second collection of Corto Maltese stories, all set in South America at the start of the twentieth century. Includes the individual issues:
Green, Red and Black
The Secret of Tristan Bantam
Rendez-vous in Bahia
Sureshot Samba
Moving from the South Pacific to the hot and steamy shores of the Carribbean, Hugo Pratt’s roving hero chases ancient maps of buried temples, kidnapped friends, voodoo sorcerers and arms dealers, even some of the cangaceiros I later read about in a Jorge Amado novel. This second collection of Corto Maltese includes several linked stories of him as his companions travelling from Surinam to Salvador de Bahia and later deep into the Amazonian jungle. My edition is also rich in Easter eggs, additional material: in the beginning giving us a history of Suriname with numerous photos from the period described here, and at the end a biography and critical commentary.
The first panel introduces the hero as a ‘man of destiny’ , a catalyst for adventure whether he is aboard a sailing ship, smoking his cigar’s on a hotel’s veranda or riding a steamboat up a river.
This will be a rather short review, because I read the album several weeks ago, before leaving on holiday, but even if plot details have become a little hazy, I still recall my initial reluctance to accept the colorization [compared with Ballad of the Salt Sea, which I read in original black and white] and the slightly skewed artwork, only to become a few pages later really absorbed in the way Pratt builds up his panels, in his moody seascapes, in the dynamism of his action scenes and at the depth of research that went into his backgrounds, both graphic and historical.
I am almost forced to admit that the Italian ‘fumetti’ are just as good as the better known Franco-Belgian publications. I hope I will find the time to continue both with this series and with other comic series from the peninsula.
October 10, 2019
Med beskeder sendt via ild, spåkoner og voodoo ledes Corto, Tristan Bantam & Professor Steiner over havet for at finde Tristans halvsøster og en morderisk advokat - der bliver også tid til at levere våben til oprørere, møde indianere og magiske drømme.
April 28, 2019
Izdanje sa izvrsnim uvodom. Čarobne fotografije i zanimljiv i informativan tekst stvaraju pravi ugođaj za upustit se u Cortove avanture koje slijede.
June 4, 2024
Un héros qui semble sans morale mais qui fait enfin le bien.
Quelques incohérences dans le récit.
Quelques incohérences dans le récit.
June 7, 2011
Bogen indeholder tre af Hugo Pratts korte tegneserienoveller om Corto Maltese. Det er nogle af de tidlige Corto Maltese fra begyndelsen af 1970'erne. Fine historier og fede tegninger. Denne bog er udgivet af Faraos Cigarer for ganske nyligt.
August 6, 2015
I think i have read most of the Malteses- he was the 'hot' guy of the comics for us when i was 17...
the beauty of the pics, the melancholy atmosphere. The talent of illustration.
the beauty of the pics, the melancholy atmosphere. The talent of illustration.
September 8, 2015
Dovrei smettere di leggere le avventure di Corto perché sono innamorata di lui e poi ci rimango male perché in realtà non esiste.
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