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Hugo's Swipe File - Coda
My good friend Manuel Caldas wrote the following comment below: “You really hate the poor Pratt!” I have a few comments to comment the comment:1) I love his drawing abilities, at least while he was in...
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In Praise of Hugo Pratt While Lamenting How He Was Published
I love Hugo Pratt's early drawing style. Here are some examples from Misterix magazine # 228 (January 30, 1953; pages 24, 25 of the "Sgt. Kirk" series, "Hermano de sangre" - blood brother story arc):As...
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Feliz dia de la historieta!
Hugo Pratt, tapa de Hora Cero Suplemento Semanal # 1, 4 de septiembre de 1957.Hoy se celebra el Dia de la Historieta en la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (Capital Federal) y en toda Argentina.
View ArticleC'est Complètement Incroyable!
C'est à lire et à pleurer! Et il y a plus de 3.000 idiots qui aiment ça!Je vient d'ajouter le comentaire suivant dans le site:Je veux dire seulement que les scénarios de Sgt. Kirk ont été totalement...
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Francesco Guccini's and Guido Buzzelli's Colpo di Stato
Today I received an obscure short story by Francesco Guccini (w) and Guido Buzzelli (a). It's "Colpo di Stato" [coup d'état], published for the first time in Undercomics # 0 (June 1973) and republished...
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Two Brief Notes
The Crib comes out of its hibernation (to call it something) basically for two reasons:1) Joey Manley left us way too soon!2) Books like this one (see above) are silenced in an economy where only the...
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Why I like Pim & Francie by Al Columbia
It's very simple, really... I can imagine Pim & Francie telling some stupid children's story that would ruin everything. Al Columbia doesn't fall into that trap. He tells no single story, he hints...
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Alberto Breccia and Hugo Pratt
Colihue Ediciones in Argentina published Juan Sasturain's latest book Breccia el viejo (that's great news!).Lately I've been scanning as much as I can of the "Sgt. Kirk" series by Héctor Germán...
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Héctor Germán Oesterheld's and Francisco Solano Lopez' Amapola Negra "Black...
Sometime ago I chose my top ten comics list for The Hooded Utilitarian. My indisputable number one was (and is) Amapola Negra "Black Poppy" by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano Lopez....
View ArticleYoshiharu Tsuge's 花かげ (Red Flowers)
A beautiful visual metaphor by the greatest comics artist of all time:
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Héctor Germán Oesterheld's Swipe FIle
Page 493 of the Sgt. Kirk series by Héctor Germán Oesterheld (w), Hugo Pratt (a), Stefan Strocen (c)."Cerco de Muerte" [death siege], Misterix # 317, October 15, 1954.The above page is part of a Sgt....
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Héctor Germán Oesterheld's Swipe File - Coda
From left to right: Philadelphia Thursday (Shirley Temple), Emily Colingwood (Anna Lee), Mary O'Rourke (Irene Rich) in Fort Apache (1948) by John Ford (director), Archie Stout and William H. Clothier...
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Frontera Las revistas de Oesterheld by Carlos Altgelt
More great news from Argentina! I can't wait to get my anxious mitts on it!By the way, one of Carlos' ancestors is Richard Felton Outcault. Confused? It's easy to explain: in time the family name...
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Tom Gill's Three Classic Manga by Yoshiharu Tsuge
‘Chiko,’ ‘A View of the Seaside,’ and ‘Mister Ben of the Igloo’: Visual and Verbal Narrative Technique in Three Classic Manga by Yoshiharu TsugeTom Gill at The Hooded Utilitarian explains why Yoshiharu...
View ArticleRoot Hog or Die (trailer) -- a film about John Porcellino
See also John Stafford's blog.
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What Is a Hero?
Héctor Germán Oesterheld (w) and Francisco Solano López (a), "Amapola Negra 'Black Poppy': Octava misión", Hora Cero # 24, April 1959.I said on this blog already that my all time favorite comic is...
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Ugo
Meanwhile, to be a bit childish myself (it happens), here's one of my favorite covers drawn by Hugo Pratt. Design wise (unfortunately I don't know who the designer was; Fred Zulauf, Juan Herliczka?) I...
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Pamphlets and Graphic Novels: Seth's Clyde Fans (A Case Study)
Gregory Gallant (aka Seth) and I were both born in the early 1960s. This means that we lived the end of the pamphlet, as a vehicle for the serialization of alternative comics, and the rise of the...
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Pamphlets and Graphic Novels: Seth's Clyde Fans (A Case Study) - Coda
Seth was interviewed in 2006 for the POV website. Here's what he said at the time:Seth: I am plowing ahead with the second part of my book Clyde Fans. I hope to have a good chunk of it done by the end...
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