Didn't read too much this weekend, just a couple more chapters of Ping Pong - and so little happens in each tiny chapter that it's not really worth talking about again until I read another big batch (I've just started into book two), and about half of the first Hugo Pratt Corto Maltese book collection. I've unfortunately been reading these out of order - so it's a little weird to go back now and read the first book - especially since I'm over halfway into it and Corto Maltese hasn't even shown up as a character (he has been mentioned a couple of times). The main characters seem to be Jack London (!) and a defective Russian on a killing rampage. At least some of the Corto Maltese comics were available in English at one point during the 90s, that I remember - so they probably can still be tracked down. I've been picking up the new, bite sized editions put out by Casterman in french. Did Pratt color these, or is the color something new - I'd only seen 'em in black and white before. In any case, these editions are pretty nice, and very affordable (five or six euros depending on the length of the book). The art is great, as always, but I'm definitely (so far) enjoying the story of this first volume less than the others I've read. The huge volume 2, La Ballade de la mer salée, is definitely the book I would recommend the most so far. Volume 15 seems to be the latest re-release.
Official Corto Maltese site
Monday, November 19, 2007
Didn't read too much...
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2 comments:
I love Hugo Pratt too!
As far as I know, the colours are new in these little sized Casterman collection.
For THe Ballad of the salt sea, Hugo Pratt's publisher released this year a birthday edition of the graphic novel (in French, Italian or Spanish, but no English...).
You can see it on Amazon.fr for example: ISBN-10: 2203005793
It's a fantastic book, printed on the real-size format of Hugo Pratt's full pages!
Cheers!
yow - that's cool - 50 euros though - ouch! If I hadn't just picked up the little edition I'd be tempted. I figured the colors on those might be new - as I'd only seen the books in black and white before, but it seemed to work pretty good with the artwork and looks nice - unlike when stuff usually gets colored that was meant to be in black and white. I did finish reading the first volume the other night - I'm glad that wasn't actually the first volume I read, because things definitely get better from there - I found it a bit disjointed and the ending was a little too arbitrary
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