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Corto Maltese: The Ballad of the Salt Sea
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 10:38 -0700
by Jet_Jaguar
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 10:47 -0700
by toine
I have all Corto Maltese adventures (in french), it is a must have for any comic lover !
If you like big classic adventures (think R.L. Stevenson, F. Cooper or J. Conrad) and solid B&W art (think M. Caniff) you will adore Corto Maltese. Hugo Pratt is a comic master of the same importance than Will Eisner. It is great to see his work translated in english.
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 19:21 -0700
by Stan Sakai
Corto Maltese is a terrific series. I have the English language editions that came out about 20 years ago (I think from NBM).
Re: Corto Maltese: The Ballad of the Salt Sea
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 22:23 -0700
by Jet_Jaguar
Hmm, it looks like there are some serious problems with this new edition, unfortunately (via Heidi McDonald [@comixace] on Twitter):
http://www.bigplanetcomics.com/how-to-d ... cs-classic
Re: Corto Maltese: The Ballad of the Salt Sea
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 12:51 -0700
by Angilasman
^Read someone on the CBR boards say the fault doesn't really lie with the US publisher, that these reformatted version were actually done in Europe.
*EDIT* Apparently Pratt himself was behind the reformatting. Worked on it in the early '90s in order to make the books fit a more marketable format. Check out the responses to the first negative review on the amazon page.