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Aventuras de Corto Maltese #5
Corto Maltese: Voodoo for the President
"Hanno ucciso Corto Maltese"! Questo è il messaggio portato a Steiner dal "mascherone' alla guida di una canoa sul fiume dell'isola di Port Ducal. Il povero professore non riesce a credere alle proprie "Non può morire così… non lui…". Impazzito dal dolore, cerca aiuto presso il Signor Presidente suo amico, ma ciò che vedrà negli occhi dell'uomo che conosceva sarà qualcosa di inaudito e di spaventoso. 'Lei è una canaglia, Zola, ma per niente intelligente, e neanche furbo...' Ebook ottimizzato per Tablet, Mac e PC***********************
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96 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1979
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Hugo Pratt
720 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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December 21, 2008
Highly entertaining. Art work can only be described as magic....
November 25, 2019
"Voodoo for the President" is only the first story of four that equally divide this volume. The next three are "Sweet Dream Lagoon" - "A Tale of Two Grandfathers" - "The Angel in the Window to the Orient".
Story *****
-HP's stories are always HIGHLY original with interesting and dynamic characters.
-He's a master of setting and moves the plot within them with authenticity.
-GUARANTEED laughs- especially the second story which is his funniest that I've read AND it became my favorite work of his overall for all the other reasons!
Art ****
-This wasn't early enough in Pratt's career to excuse the sloppy art but it tells the story well- I'm just being picky.
Story *****
-HP's stories are always HIGHLY original with interesting and dynamic characters.
-He's a master of setting and moves the plot within them with authenticity.
-GUARANTEED laughs- especially the second story which is his funniest that I've read AND it became my favorite work of his overall for all the other reasons!
Art ****
-This wasn't early enough in Pratt's career to excuse the sloppy art but it tells the story well- I'm just being picky.
May 12, 2008
The drawings in this set of stories are some of Pratt's best.
February 23, 2020
Originally published in Italian. A selection of four stories from the titular adventurer, who becomes a voodoo ritual, witnesses the dying delusions of a WWI deserter, then travels to the Amazon and becomes involved in searching for one of the legendary Seven Cities of Gold. The detail in the stories is impressive, but the translations for this volume is rather clunky. Other versions are better, so I've been told. But these are smooth tales, skillfully presented.
April 4, 2018
The translation was slightly better in this one, but still needs improvement.
January 6, 2008
The first volume I ever read, got it for 3 bucks at a book store!
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