Beyond the Windy Isles

Author: Hugo Pratt
Publisher: EuroComics
ISBN: 9781631403170
Category : COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This book, the first of twelve volumes, launches the definitive English-language edition of Hugo Pratt's masterpiece, presented in the original oversized B&W format and with new translations made from Pratt's original Italian scripts... The adventures of this modern Ulysses are set during the first thirty years of the 20th Century in such exotic locales as Pratt's native Venice, the steppes of Manchuria, the Caribbean islands, the Danakil deserts, the Amazon forests, and the waves of the Pacific.

The Secret Venice of Corto Maltese. Fantastic and Hidden Itineraries

Author: Hugo Pratt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788817148887
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description

The Ethiopian

Author: Hugo Pratt
Publisher: IDW Publishing
ISBN: 9781631406966
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Corto Maltese: the Secret Rose

Author: Hugo Pratt
Publisher: Euro Comics
ISBN: 9781684054022
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Visiting the writer Hermann Hesse while researching alchemists with his old friend Professor Steiner, Corto drinks from the 'source of the Alchemy Rose' and becomes immersed in a surreal and dreamlike adventure that involves Klingsor, the quest for the Holy Grail, Death, the Devil, and the Sandman, among others"--Provided by publisher.

Corto Maltese: In Siberia

Author: Hugo Pratt
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1631408488
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Nominated for both the Eisner and Harvey Awards for Best Foreign Language Publication! With this book Pratt leaves behind the short story form he’d used for twenty-one interrelated tales and presents a truly epic graphic novel. In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution and the First World War, Corto Maltese is engaged by the Red Lanterns—a Chinese secret society made up entirely of women—to find an armored train laden with gold that belonged to the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II. They aren’t the only ones lusting after the treasure. The adventure, which shifts from the hidden courts of Venice to the mysterious alleys of Hong Kong, from Shanghai to Manchuria and Mongolia to Siberia, also attracts regular and irregular armies, as well as revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries. The sweeping plot allows Pratt to fully investigate the complicated and competing motivations of his cast that includes the return of Rasputin and the introduction of the cold and dangerous Duchess Marina Seminova, the enigmatic warrior/spy named Shanghai-Lil, and historical figures such as the "Mad Baron" Roman Ungern-Sternberg, a Russian general who who sees himself as the modern-day Genghis Khan!

Theodore Poussin - Volume 1 - Captain Steene

Author: Le Gall
Publisher: Europe Comics
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
The dreams of a pencil pusher longing for adventure and distant shores come true when the maritime transport company where he works sends him on a trip to 1928 French Indochina. But Theodore Poussin is about to get more than he bargained for as he sets sail on the Cap Padaran: a mysterious, poetry-reciting man with ominous predictions about his future follows him everywhere; stories surrounding his late uncle Captain Steene, whose grave he promised his family he would find, are vague and contradictory; and he somehow ends up in the crossfire of a guerilla war near the Chinese border, forced to run for his life and toward even more unexpected events.

Drawn and Dangerous

Author: Simone Castaldi
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1604737778
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Exploring an overlooked era of Italian history roiled by domestic terrorism, political assassination, and student protests, this book shines a new light on what was a dark decade, but an unexpectedly prolific and innovative period among artists of comics intended for adults. Blurring the lines between high art and popular consumption, artists of the Italian comics scene went beyond passively documenting history and began actively shaping it through the creation of fictional worlds where history, cultural data, and pop-realism interacted freely.

Celtic Tales

Author: Hugo Pratt
Publisher: Euro Comics
ISBN: 9781631405075
Category : COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In this third volume in the definitive English language edition of Hugo Pratt's masterpiece, the action moves from South America to Europe against the backdrop of the First World War. In these six stories Pratt further explores such complicated themes as patriotism and greed, revolution and opportunism, and betrayal and seduction. Events take Corto from a small island in the Venetian lagoon, where he comes face to face with a beautiful blonde spy, to Stonehenge and an adventure with Merlin, Morgana, and Puck. Along the way he meets Ernest Hemingway and future billionaire Aristotle Onassis, Irish revolutionary Banshee O'Danann, the legendary Red Baron, and an intense cast of characters who weave in and out of a series of labyrinthine plots and counter-plots.

The Man from the Great North

Author: Hugo Pratt
Publisher: One Man, One Adventure
ISBN: 9781684050581
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Set in the snowy wastelands of Canada around 1912, this provocative graphic novel deals with complex moral choices. Jesuit Joe, the protagonist, is of French-Canadian and Mohawk descent and is embarked on an obsessive religious search for the Absolute. His actions reflect a disturbed personality with an unorthodox ethical code. He kills with terrible ease and reveals an unmatched cruelty and ferocity, yet when his mood suddenly shifts, he is capable of unexpected acts of kindness and compassion. He wears the red serge jacket of the Canadian Mounties that he found in a hut, which gives rise to a series of misunderstandings when he is mistaken for a member of the Canadian Mounted Police, and is tracked by his nemesis, Sergeant Fox, whose mission is to capture Jesuit Joe and bring him to justice." Page 4 of cover.

Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen

Author: Dylan Horrocks
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1606997904
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
Acclaimed cartoonist Dylan Horrocks returns with a long-awaited new graphic novel, the first since his perennial classic, 1998’s Hicksville. Cartoonist Sam Zabel hasn’t drawn a comic in years. Stuck in a nightmare of creative block and despair, Sam spends his days writing superhero stories for a large American comics publisher and staring at a blank piece of paper, unable to draw a single line. Then one day he finds a mysterious old comic book set on Mars and is suddenly thrown headlong into a wild, fantastic journey through centuries of comics, stories, and imaginary worlds. Accompanied by a young webcomic creator named Alice and an enigmatic schoolgirl with rocket boots and a bag full of comics, Sam goes in search of the Magic Pen, encountering sex-crazed aliens, medieval monks, pirates, pixies and ― of course ― cartoonists. Funny, erotic, and thoughtful, Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen explores the pleasures, dangers, and moral consequences of fantasy.