More old heroes

In the early eighties I used to order albums from Denmark that hadn't been translated into Norwegian. One of them was The Ballad of The Salt Sea, by Hugo Pratt, where Corto Maltese makes his first appearance. It's one of the first graphic novels (before that term was invented!), and it's still a great book. Pratt's drawings are just as fresh today. The book has been published in both black and white and in colour, but I really reccommend the black and white version.

Storm P (1882-1949) was a Danish cartoonist. I had several collections of his drawings and really enjoyed his characters and the inventiveness of his drawings.

Whereas the Blueberry series was influenced by the Ford and Hawks westerns, the Jonathan Cartland series was closer to the revisionist westerns of the 70s, like A Man Called Horse and Little Big Man. The drawings by Blanc-Dumont were detailed, but slightly frozen. The first four or five albums were quite good. I especially remember this one, La riviere du vent, having an effective cliffhanger at the end, and then unfortunately the later albums were less interesting.