Great Official Website. English. The first Corto Maltese adventure, Una ballata del mare salato, Italian publication cover.
Corto Maltese is a comics series featuring an eponymous character, a complex sailor-adventurer. It was created by Italian comic book creator Hugo Pratt in 1967. The Corto Maltese series has been translated into numerous languages. Publication history[edit] In 1976, Ballad of the Salt Sea was published in book format and was awarded the prize for best foreign realistic comic album at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.[2] Pratt continued to produce new stories over the next two decades, many first appearing in the eponymous comics magazine Corto Maltese, until 1988 when the final story Mu was serialised, ending in June 1989.
Character[edit] Chronologically, the first Corto Maltese adventure, La giovinezza (The Early Years), happens during the Russo-Japanese War. Chronology[edit] This is a list of the twelve Corto Maltese novels in chronological order. Adaptations[edit] See also[edit] Swimming in a salted sea at Fizzing Banana. This is probably my favourite comic.
Corto Maltese. Even the name of the protagonist inspires adventures and dreams. Hugo Pratt’s drawing is rough and colourless. But once one manages to look beyond it, a new window appears filled by fragrances and mysteries. It is very rare to meet such a narrative exception. What I appreciate the most is the whole atmosphere. Ps: Here is a web map I made about. An approach to the character. This article contains some thoughts about Corto Maltese, the comic book character created by Hugo Pratt, arising from the course "The Male Archetype in the History of Cinema Genres", given by Dr Núria Bou, on the Doctorate in Audiovisual Communication programme directed by Dr Josep M. Baget i Herms. The story begins when a sailor from Cornwall disembarks in Gibraltar and meets a beautiful gypsy girl from Seville.
And continues in the cove of Valeta. A house with an arcaded courtyard and wrought-iron grilles between St John Street and Kingsway, is the setting for the birth of their son on the morning of 10 July 1887. His father is said to have disappeared off the coast of Chile near Iquique, to have turned up in Adelaide after a shady brawl, or even to have been murdered on the Pearl River. Corto Maltese crystallises Hugo Pratt’s exploration in drawing of characters from Ernie Pike to Cato Zulu by way of Tipperary O'Hara, Simon Girty, Jesuit Joe or Saint-Exupéry himself. Corto's life. Corto on the web! Fench. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre.
Pour les articles homonymes, voir Maltese. Corto Maltese est une série de bande dessinée d'aventure, créée par le dessinateur et scénariste italien Hugo Pratt en 1967. Cette série fait partie des bandes dessinées européennes les plus célèbres du XXe siècle. Elle a été traduite en de nombreuses langues et adaptée en plusieurs films d'animation. Biographie du personnage[modifier | modifier le code] Enfant illégitime, il grandit dans un milieu baigné de magie auprès de sa mère, qui sait lire le passé et l'avenir dans les cartes comme dans les lignes de la main. Il doit son éducation à Ezra Toledano, un amour de jeunesse de sa mère[2], un rabbin qui le fait entrer à 12 ans dans un collège hébraïque de La Valette où il étudie la Torah, le Talmud et le Sefer Ha Zohar.
On retrouve sa trace en 1913. Le 11 novembre 1918, la guerre est terminée en Europe. Depuis, peu de nouvelles. Toutefois, nous savons qu’il reviendra auprès de Pandora. Beautiful tribute. For dreamers. Casterman' word. Following his footsteps.
More about the guys in Corto. Hugo Pratt.