How do we go about getting more comics like Corto Maltese?Not more of Corto Maltese himself, but more of that type of comic. Serialized, non-superhero adventure, like Tintin as well.
>>154175517You mean shitty comics?
I haven't heard of this character until this thread. He any good?
>>154175824He's cool. The stories are a bit clunky now, but they have a cool feel to them.
>>154175517>Serialized, non-superhero adventure, like Tintin as well.You get that by killing and raping marvel, DC and every capeslopper.If you want comics to resemble books you must step up and eliminate some bad oldfag culture
>>154175517Attilio Mizzelucchi's Rosso Stenton might be your jam. As an artist he's vastly superior to Pratt while keeping the same laidback vibe.
>>154176623I've seen Micheluzzi's art. He's really good.
>>154175517We don't.
>>154175517Just buy more french or belgian stuff. That's the norm there
>>154175824I only knew the place in DC Comics. Is it named after him?
>>154178562Yeah. Frank Miller was a fan.
>>154175517Getting more Euro comics translated would be a good start. But I'm guessing the reason that doesn't happen is that they don't sell well enough in the Anglosphere to warrant it.
>>154175517You know, for a character who is a sailor, you never really see him on a boat or doing things out at sea, for that matter, other than going up and down coastlines or coastal towns, smoking cigarettes >>154175824He is a cool character; his stories are a bit dated, but they are a decent read if you don't mind that sort of thing
>>154175517Does Japan do stories like this?
>>154180699>You know, for a character who is a sailor, you never really see him on a boat or doing things out at sea,That's pretty common in fiction, unsurprisingly, most writers and artists are not sailors themselves and can't write convincing scenes about sailing for drama so they kind of jut want to move the plot along until the drama happens
Go back in time and keep Darwyn Cooke from dying so he could finish up the Parker series.
>>154180826I don't know. I've read plenty of boat kino that spends a lot of time on a boat, leeward this, tacking that, all that fun stuff.
>>154175517Popularize these types of comics as literature and defend it violently against the cape-apes. Make it seem like it's different and more...and I hate how this term has been changed. "Mature".Put it on the same level as the big boy/big girl books and create various genre's. Why not have illustrated spy stories, drama, etc etc. Put them in paper paper back and give them at least 20 pages. The short form floppy has been the domain of capes for too long and is too expensive now. But a magazine format with many of a certain genre or an illustrated book is far more acceptable. Have open discussion of genres and maturity levels when it comes to illustrated stories/comics.
>>154175517>>154176588>>154181511>Discuss the merits of foreign adventure comics without denigrating superhero comics challenge: Impossible
>>154175824He's great.Watch the cartoon, it's a worthy adaptation. Feels very different from everything were used to.
>>154182822*we arefucking autocorrect
>>154176623>As an artist he's vastly superior to PrattYou must have been sniffing so much glue growing up, just record amounts of glue
>>154179796Miller's Sin City style is essentially based on Pratt's art style. IIRC the practical execution was very different, but the result shows a clear influence.
>>154180699>You know, for a character who is a sailor, you never really see him on a boat or doing things out at seaWhat? Are you serious? He goes up the Amazon on a steamboat admittedly, but his yawl he has for a long stretch is prominent in a bunch of stories, the entire first story is shipboard essentially except for the resolution on the island, there's a huge part of Siberia where he's on the junk of the Red Lantern Society and they get in that fight with the sailors...
>>154183429True
>>154175517Tell Europe to stop being a bunch of lazy fags and translate more of their comics.
>>154183277It also looks like Steranko and Jose Munoz black and white art.
>>154182803Superheroes did an insane amount of damage to the medium.
>>154175517Read more Hugo Pratt it’s that simple. Read Wheeling recently and it’s was pretty good
>>154181511>Popularize these types of comics as literaturePretentious fag alert.
>>154185620Not exactly. In the past cape comics were just one of a wide variety of genres, and were in fact in decline post-WWII. What damaged the medium and led to their supremacy was the 50s comics scare that obliterated most of the other genres as they couldn't operate within the Comics Code straitjacket, while capeshit pretty easily could and did. So capeshit is a symptom, not a cause, the result of the industry being strangled with only the most baby-friendly retard shit allowed to flourish.
>late stage colonialism>gnosticism / kabballah loredump>stares into the horizon (is deep)
>>154181511Cape derangement syndrome. Plenty of capekino better than this boring crap.
>>154181511>>154182803>>154185620>>154186028I like both capes and non-capes. Why can't we get along?
