Italy’s Rainbow Group – the company led by Iginio Straffi, creator of the hit “ Winx Club ” animation franchise – is set to launch into the high seas with a live-action series adaptation ...

Italy's Rainbow Group – the company led by Iginio Straffi, creator of the hit "Winx Club" animation franchise – is set to launch into the high seas with a live-action series adaptation of Hugo ...

Corto Maltese Five years in the making, and based on a 1974 comic book by cult cartoonist Hugo Pratt, "Corto Maltese" is a good-looking but dramatically bland toon centered on an early 20th ...

Frank Miller to Pen ‘Corto Maltese’ Limited Series for StudioCanal The comics legend behind 'The Dark Knight Returns' and '300' will adapt the classic graphic novels by Hugo Pratt for live-action.

EXCLUSIVE: Studiocanal will back a live-action series adaptation of the Hugo Pratt Corto Maltese graphic novel series, with Sin City ’s Frank Miller to be its creator, writer and executive producer.

If you've yet to be captivated by the graphic novel, here's the absolute place to start. IDW Publishing has just released 'Corto Maltese: Under the Sign of Capricorn,” its first in a proposed 12 ...

It doesn't age, or rather it ages well like some wines made in the right way. Corto Maltese is, in fact, the charm of a hero foreign to time and conventions , yet perceived by readers as "close".

For those who don’t know, Corto Maltese was a very popular comic book sea captain created by Hugo Pratt (1927-1995). Despite the anglo sound of his name, Pratt (né Ugo Prat) was an Italian ...

This is the same Corto Maltese we encounter in 2021 in James Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad.” Sure, the island — and, for that matter, the movie — is fictional, but it draws on disturbing ...

His first, and perhaps most revered, graphic novel is 1967’s “Corto Maltese: A Ballad of the Salty Sea,” which introduced the roguish, chain-smoking sailor to the world.