Souls lofty, imaginative, rich in culture, a heavenly inspiration, as it was in the earthly one. I imagine a wonderful paradise populated by all these great characters, Crepax playing cards with Pratt Vreeland chatting with Piaggi, Modigliani arguing with Matisse. Umberto Eco said: “When I want to relax I read an essay by Engels, if I want to commit myself I read Corto Maltese” He was quoted by Allen in “Hannah and Her Sisters” and Tim Burton’s Batman. He was awarded by Jack Lang, then French Minister of Culture. He has exhibited in international museums such as the Grand Palais in Paris. And this wandering, drifting by the waves, it is not the best way to know and understand even themselves? This is why stories of Pratt have a very specific audience, which is not usually the comics, who follows Pratt loves him madly, plunges into his stories from the point of identifying with them.Īs for the “excellence”, Hugo Pratt was able to leave his unique and precious sign also in other areas, has designed a Formula 1 car with the colors of Gitanes cigarettes, backpacks, French phone cards, album covers (for Paolo Conte, Sergio endrigo, etc.), movie posters, really a variety of different things, all with an incredible imagination and beauty. Hugo Pratt leaves to the final drawing of “Ballad of the Salt Sea” the sense of wondering felt by Corto Maltese. Then follow his father Rolando, military career, in Africa, another place full of inspiration, which will frame or suggestion of many adventures of Hugo Pratt.Ĭorto Maltese is born in 1967, in the journal Sgt.Kirk, with its splendid history “Ballad of the Salt Sea”. “Like the white wing of the albatross on the monotonous breath of the Pacific, so too idle to wander, goes the sail of the true sailor”. Pratt was born in Rimini in 1927, but it moves very young in Venice (important place, the protagonist of some stories of Corto Maltese, a town maze where real and unreal does not stand ever at all). Hugo Pratt was really a great storyteller. The comics of Hugo Pratt know capture the reader from the first images, of course thanks to its protagonist, Corto Maltese, a captivating and modern design and the complexity of the stories. The plots are in fact the happy meeting between action and fantasy (with the magic and the power of dreams), between adventure and humor, history and fantasy. a dream for young women, an inspiration for the boys. Today I will speak of him, of his great creator, Hugo Pratt, and the mythical sailor’s jacket, the Pea Coat.
Among those I have loved, since a child, there was Corto Maltese. This male figure has been for years the image of my ideal man, adventurer, elegant, brave ….
I have a daddy lover and collector of comic books, my childhood was characterized by these magazines full of colors, characters, fantastic trips.
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