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 introduced Corto Maltese in the epic adventure “The Ballad of the Salty Sea.” Pratt set the standard for all adult adventure comics in Europe, and by the mid-1970s Corto was the continent’s most popular series […]
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