![]() As IDW points out in its marketing for the book, it is “universally acknowledged as Hugo Pratt’s masterpiece,” and it is the set of serialized stories that first introduced Corto Maltese to the world. The Ballad of the Salty Sea is regarded as one of Pratt’s best works with the character, so much so that it was the winner of the world’s first-ever award for Best Graphic Novel, which the book snagged in 1976 at the renowned Angoulême Festival. I recently made time to sit down with the new edition of Corto Maltese: Ballad of the Salty Sea, a work from 1975 that has been made newly accessible by IDW Publishings’ Euro Comics imprint. But I do have to note that those experiences have been too few.įor example, I had not read any of the comics associated with Italian cartoonist Hugo Pratt’s classic sea captain adventurer character, Corto Maltese, who was created by Pratt in 1967. ![]() This is not deliberate, to be sure, and I’ve certainly enjoyed the few experiences I’ve had with European comics, specifically thinking here of The Incal by Jodorowsky and Moebius. ![]() By Zack Quaintance - I am, I must admit, somewhat of a neophyte when it comes to European comics. ![]()
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