creator of the hit “Winx Club” animation franchise – is set to launch into the high seas with a live-action series adaptation of Hugo Pratt’s “Corto Maltese” graphic novels.

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.

Italy’s Rainbow is set to bring adventurer Corto Maltese to the screen in a new live-action TV series based on Hugo Pratt’s graphic novels. The first graphic novel, called A Ballad of the ...

“I first discovered Corto Maltese reading the books at Forbidden Planet in New York as a young man,” said Miller, the famed comic creator behind The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: Year O ...

By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief “I first discovered Corto Maltese reading the books at Forbidden Planet in New York as a young man. Then on my travels, I studied and discovered an edition ...

Five years in the making, and based on a 1974 comic book by cult cartoonist Hugo Pratt, "Corto Maltese" is a good ... Largely 2-D animation pushes no borders.

If you thought Corto Maltese was just a fictional country invented by Frank Miller for The Dark Knight Returns, Miller himself may soon teach us otherwise. The name was a reference to a popular ...

creator of the hit "Winx Club" animation franchise – is set to launch into the high seas with a live-action series adaptation of Hugo Pratt's "Corto Maltese" graphic novels. The comics follow ...

Indeed, in each episode Corto Maltese lives his own complete adventure, in which encounters and clashes alternate with male and female characters emblematic of the universe created by Hugo Pratt.