How did an Italian child soldier invent the graphic novel decades before anyone in the US?
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Hugo Pratt Reading Guide:
Recent Digital Release:
Under the Sign of Capricorn (first Pif Stories): https://amzn.to/3SxpJAR
IDW Editions (The Nice, Expensive Ones)
The Ballad of the Salty Sea - https://amzn.to/4d7ebgd
Under the Sign of Capricorn (Pif stories 1) - https://amzn.to/3WmqTAs
Beyond the Windy Isles (Pif stories 2) - https://amzn.to/3A4f6iS
Celtic Tales (Pif stories 3) - https://amzn.to/4c435Hq
The Ethiopian (Pif stories 4) - https://amzn.to/3SwXKBB
In Siberia - https://amzn.to/4c7OoTO
Fable of Venice - https://amzn.to/3Sug5z2
The Golden house of Samarkand - https://amzn.to/3Sxq6LL
The Early Years - https://amzn.to/3WKdfIP
Tango - https://amzn.to/3WwOWNe
The Secret Rose - https://amzn.to/3YsR4bt
Mu: The Lost Continent - https://amzn.to/46x3Vv8
Most of Corto Maltese was originally released by NBM, those are the ones I have and (unpopular opinion) I don’t think the translation is *that* much worse than IDW.
Other Pratt comics:
Wheeling (digital only)
Vol 1: https://amzn.to/4cpFvFn
Vol 2: https://amzn.to/3WwBTuX
Scorpions of the Desert (available exclusively on Apple books!?)
https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-scorpions-of-the-desert/id966061502
Books about Hugo Pratt’s life (the main sources for this video):
The Desire to Be Useless - https://amzn.to/4d2XJgT
On the Other Side of Corto - https://amzn.to/3A5v786
Aspettando Corto - https://amzn.to/3yo7NC0
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