Hugo Pratt managed to successfully capture the last days of the colonial world of the beginning of the 20th century and the arrival of the rebellion of the peoples of the Third World.īut the adventures of a Maltese sailor set against the background of this fascinating era would not be so fascinating, had Pratt not combined the adventure-filled content with refined poetic climes. And yet, there is something enchanting about them, even 40 years after their first release. Hugo Pratt’s comic books may have been somewhat too sophisticated to appeal to the mass reader’s taste. Perhaps Corto Maltese arrived here too late, when the comic book’s heyday in the West had already subsided. On the banks of the Vistula it has yet to attract readers’ interest. Hugo Pratt’s epic work has been translated into dozens of languages but remains relatively unknown in Poland. Can we celebrate the birthday of a comic book character? Of course we can, if it is an exceptional character, a symbol of 1970s Western pop-culture on a par with the photographs of Helmuth Newton or the creations of Yves Saint-Laurent.
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