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Offline Mancha

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« on: April 10, 2008, 03:47:51 PM »
Wow, following the link provided in the thread about the Chilean (?) bandits, I've been looking through the "Les Archives Hugo Pratt" website.  There's some great art in there.  Some of the plates are almost Osprey-esque in their depiction of uniform.  Others are merely classic Pulpy.  Very nifty stuff.  (Hope I'm not overdoing the pictures here.)

















This set me off on an eBay search, where I discovered a "Corto Maltese" Swatch.  How cool is that?!


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« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2008, 03:51:10 PM »
Thanks for sharing, they are great :)
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« Reply #2 on: April 10, 2008, 04:11:12 PM »
Those are cool! I'm going to go and steal images.

I mean, do research.  :roll:

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« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2008, 04:17:20 PM »
Hugo Pratt rules. I do wish English versions of Corto Maltese weren't so damn expensive and hard to come by these days.

I have an old copy of "...In Africa" which according to Amazon.co.uk is worth just shy of £150. I found it in a bargain bin in Nostalgia and Comics for a pound or so.

This is one of my favourites, stolen from the web and sitting on my hard drive for some years now:



Dunno why, but I just love that pic.
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Offline Prof.Witchheimer

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« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2008, 04:17:27 PM »
well, time to do some Pratt researching, too  :wink:

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« Reply #5 on: April 10, 2008, 04:19:50 PM »
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Dunno why, but I just love that pic.


you know, that's the little Corto with his parents in the background

Offline Mancha

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« Reply #6 on: April 10, 2008, 04:26:35 PM »
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Dunno why, but I just love that pic.



It's the hat sloped forward--does it for me every time.   :)

PS - I love the monkeys perched on the gun at the bottom right.

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« Reply #7 on: April 10, 2008, 04:27:15 PM »
Just as a point of warning, some of the links contain images of women in states of undress, just in case you're at work.

This is a great picture of American Loyalist Rangers, if I'm not mistaken:


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« Reply #8 on: April 10, 2008, 04:29:09 PM »
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you know, that's the little Corto with his parents in the background


But that Jack Tar is wearing 08 pattern webbing. That means Corto can only be about twelve when he's having his adventures during the Great War.

He certainly looks older than that in the books!  :)

(I know, comic books have their own way of measuring the passing of time. Just look at Tintin.)

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« Reply #9 on: April 10, 2008, 04:34:26 PM »
Corto Maltese was born in 1887.

Actually, that pic is just a collage  of two different pics :)

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« Reply #10 on: April 10, 2008, 06:17:12 PM »
Quote from: "PeteMurray"
Just as a point of warning, some of the links contain images of women in states of undress, just in case you're at work.

This is a great picture of American Loyalist Rangers, if I'm not mistaken:



You know, that's how you get some work motivation into a fellow Swedish work mate. A bit of skin keeps him productive for the rest of the day. It's that whole Bergman thing. ;-)

Thnaks for that lovely fins , Mancha! You know there is a animated series, not half bad,  which we talked bout in a resent thread?

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« Reply #11 on: April 10, 2008, 06:31:49 PM »
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Thnaks for that lovely fins , Mancha!



I can't take credit--just following someone else's link.

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« Reply #12 on: April 10, 2008, 08:37:01 PM »
Plynkes its pretty obvious why you like the drawing....its the monkeys man!! Throw in a large platter  of bacon and it would be EVERYBODYS favorite  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:
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« Reply #13 on: April 12, 2008, 01:38:38 AM »
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Hugo Pratt rules. I do wish English versions of Corto Maltese weren't so damn expensive and hard to come by these days.


Agreed.

I read them all in Danish as a kid.  Looks like I'll have to go back to the old country to get them or learn French.

Last year I talked to a comic shop fellow who was talking about someone doing a new English version (for North America at least).  Six months later I asked him again and the company in question had gone under to my chagrin.
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« Reply #14 on: April 12, 2008, 09:06:49 AM »
In Germany, or so there is a new edition of some of the books only every ten years or so. I got mine in the 90ies searching flea markets and the web, leaving lots of cash. Now only the Cetls and the Youth are missing, though I must admit the last years I haven't tried to find them as hard as I did back in the 90ies. I got somewhat less enthusiastic after paying a lot for the Suiss and Mu, both are rather strange.
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