Corto Maltes MU
About the artist
Hugo Pratt
Hugo Pratt was one of the great literary cartoonists of the twentieth century, best known as the creator of the philosophical sea-adventurer Corto Maltese (1967). Formed in the Argentine comics school of the 1950s, Pratt developed an economical brush-and-ink style — spare, atmospheric, musical — that treated comics as a form capable of world literature. His deeply researched voyages through colonial history, from the South Pacific to the Horn of Africa, remain a benchmark of ambition for the bande dessinée tradition.
About this series
Corto Maltese
Corto Maltese (from 1967) is the philosophical adventure saga of Italian cartoonist Hugo Pratt — a gentleman sailor of unclear parentage whose voyages span the colonial world of the early twentieth century. Pratt's spare brush line and deeply researched historical settings established a new register for the adult adventure comic; since 2015, the series has continued under writer Juan Díaz Canales and artist Rubén Pellejero.
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Hugo Pratt original comic art
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