SANDOKAN
Hugo Pratt
Corriere della Sera
Hugo Pratt is, before the comics, literature, history pure. And this is a story within a story.
In 1967, Hugo Pratt, who has just published Ballad of the salt sea to Sergeant Kirk "- Genoa monthly comics - and resumed his collaboration with the" Corriere dei Piccoli ". Here awaits a project based on texts of the great Mino Milani: the transposition in Salgaro cartoon hero par excellence, Sandokan.
Pratt begins to work on the first part of Tigers of Mompracem , makes the striking black and white (with Milton Caniff, one of his "models" of historical interest), but soon stops. The fact is, Corto Maltese, the disenchanted gentleman of fortune appeared in Ballad of the Salt Sea, already requires all his attention.
Pratt travels to France and created the first adventures for all focusing on Corto Maltese for the magazine "Pif Gadget". The fate of Sandokan Pratt (around 30 tables) will be to remain in the drawer - or rather, in a box - for forty years. Between moving and drafting various vicissitudes, he will lose all traces. Until the discovery by the real writer Alfredo Castelli (the father of Martin Mystère), at the time he committed the "Corriere dei Piccoli".
treated with great care "philological" that the "Corriere della Sera" is a remake of Sandokan given to the press last year by Rizzoli Lizard. A must for the newspaper (many) students of Hugo Pratt, the great merit of making available to the public of the newsstands a rarity in the world of comics. Sandokan a unique, if only we Pratt "redesigned" the hero of Salgari beyond any known iconography: the "Tiger of Malaysia" by the case at last - and unmistakably - typical of the seas of Southeast Asia.
Hugo Pratt
Corriere della Sera
Hugo Pratt is, before the comics, literature, history pure. And this is a story within a story.
In 1967, Hugo Pratt, who has just published Ballad of the salt sea to Sergeant Kirk "- Genoa monthly comics - and resumed his collaboration with the" Corriere dei Piccoli ". Here awaits a project based on texts of the great Mino Milani: the transposition in Salgaro cartoon hero par excellence, Sandokan.
Pratt begins to work on the first part of Tigers of Mompracem , makes the striking black and white (with Milton Caniff, one of his "models" of historical interest), but soon stops. The fact is, Corto Maltese, the disenchanted gentleman of fortune appeared in Ballad of the Salt Sea, already requires all his attention.
Pratt travels to France and created the first adventures for all focusing on Corto Maltese for the magazine "Pif Gadget". The fate of Sandokan Pratt (around 30 tables) will be to remain in the drawer - or rather, in a box - for forty years. Between moving and drafting various vicissitudes, he will lose all traces. Until the discovery by the real writer Alfredo Castelli (the father of Martin Mystère), at the time he committed the "Corriere dei Piccoli".
treated with great care "philological" that the "Corriere della Sera" is a remake of Sandokan given to the press last year by Rizzoli Lizard. A must for the newspaper (many) students of Hugo Pratt, the great merit of making available to the public of the newsstands a rarity in the world of comics. Sandokan a unique, if only we Pratt "redesigned" the hero of Salgari beyond any known iconography: the "Tiger of Malaysia" by the case at last - and unmistakably - typical of the seas of Southeast Asia.
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