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The late Kim Thompson, best known as the Vice President and Co-Publisher of Fantagraphics Books, summed up the Pratt’s historical importance: “Corto Maltese was the first European strip to advance a mature, artistically serious sensibility within the traditional adventure format.

We’re proud to publish Hugo Pratt as the first graphic novelist in our EuroComics imprint we’re similarly pleased to publish him alongside Milton Caniff and Alex Toth, two important artistic influences on Pratt, from our long-standing Library of American Comics line.” “Pratt deserves a first-rate American edition and America deserves Corto Maltese. “We intend to change all that,” says EuroComics editorDean Mullaney. Pratt’s books remain best sellers in Europe and are published in a dozen languages yet until now, CortoMaltese has been poorly represented in English. “He is one of the true masters of comic art,” says Frank Miller. Pratt set the standard for all adult adventure comics in Europe, and by the mid-1970s Corto was the continent’s most popular series and Pratt the world’s leading graphic novelist. Long before the term “graphic novel” entered the popular lexicon, the Italian cartoonist Hugo Pratt pioneered the long-form “drawn literature” story in 1967 when he introducedCorto Maltese in the epic adventure “The Ballad of the Salty Sea.” The first book will be out in December and print a selection of short Corto stories, with an eye to a complete line of 12 volumes. We’re proud to publish Hugo Pratt as the first graphic novelist in our EuroComics imprint we’re similarly pleased to publish him alongsideMilton Caniff and Alex Toth, two important artistic influences on Pratt, from our long-standing Library of American Comics line.” “We intend to change all that,” says EuroComics editor Dean Mullaney.