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Posted on March 29, 2008 @ 7:16 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog, books, fun, people, wordpress

corto maltese hugo pratt aynaku

 Venetian Hugo Pratt is my favourite comic book creator .Due to his rather mixed family ancestry and his nomadic life, Pratt had learned snippets of things like kabbalism and lots of history. Many of his stories are placed in real historical eras and deal with real events.
As a student I had the chance to meet Hugo Pratt in early 80’ in Venice, but never met his best known character (adventuring during the early 20th century), the laconic sea captain called Corto Maltese who realised he had no fate line on his palm and therefore carved his own with a razor, determining that his fate was his to choose!

Illustration Friday’s topic is: homage

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Bello!

Nicole wrote on March 30, 2008 - 10:16 am CEST

E’ fantastico!!!
mi piace tantissimo, il gioco di luci è eccellente, e così anche i colori, lascia senza fiato!
Che strumenti stai utilizzando con il nuovo Mac?

faruffa wrote on March 30, 2008 - 6:41 pm CEST

What a very cool story and even cooler that you got to meet him! Beautiful illo to lend to this insightful homage!

valgalart wrote on March 30, 2008 - 7:30 pm CEST

Double homage! To the ‘master’ Pratt and his personage Corto Maltés

Jene wrote on March 30, 2008 - 8:49 pm CEST

That’s so cool, Massimo. It’s a great homage :)

pati @-;– wrote on March 31, 2008 - 12:30 am CEST

Great portrait, and good story to go with it!

Digital Scott wrote on April 2, 2008 - 4:20 am CEST

This is so interesting and your illustration has such great line, design, color and light! Great work as always.

Ginger *:) wrote on April 3, 2008 - 10:55 pm CEST

Con l’effetto ombre che gli hai dato, ha acquistato maggiore profondità e quindi sembra più reale, complimenti! :)

Antitaccheggio Boy wrote on April 4, 2008 - 10:51 am CEST

a classic one! what a great story and even more because you met him.

isay wrote on April 7, 2008 - 8:01 am CEST

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