If you look at the life of Hugo Pratt, you’ll see there are a lot of similarities to Corto Maltese. Sometimes he takes revenge on someone he loves, and other times he throws himself into a situation not related to him at all. Corto travels around Ethiopia with Arthur Rimbaud and Lawrence of Arabia. He defends a case while onboard the ship of journalist John Reed, who wrote The Ten Days That Shook the World, a book about his experiences of the Russian Revolution. He witnesses the death of Enver Pasha, the leader of the Young Turk Revolution and head of the Ottoman Empire until World War I. During that time, he also meets war correspondent Jack London, who accompanies him on most of his swashbuckling adventures, and Rasputin, his best friend and greatest enemy.Īfter that, Corto Maltese remains an unsung hero of many pivotal events. During China’s 1900 Boxer Rebellion, he defuses a cannon when he’s just 13 years old. When he was a boy, one of his mother’s friend noticed there was no fortune line on his palm, so Corto took a knife and slashed his hand, and from that moment on, he made his own destiny.Ĭorto Maltese travels the world without a ship.
He has blue eyes, which means nobody can do any magic to him. He’s the son of an English sailor and a Sevillian gypsy known as Nina of Gibraltar. Among all these works, Corto Maltese (about the adventures of a captain without a ship) truly stands alone.Ĭreated by Italian writer Hugo Pratt, Corto Maltese is one of the last knights. Tintin, Maus, American Splendor (even though it was bought by DC), Persepolis, and The Eternaut are all examples of this. Just as with literary classics, there are also comic books that can be considered classics.
Contrary to popular belief, comic book heroes don’t just come from Marvel and DC. First, let me start with a question: What is the one common feature shared by the seven gates of the Arcana di Corto Maltese, a hidden courtyard in Venice, and the seven gates of the Garden of Eden in Africa?Īnd now to the article at hand.
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