Corto sits on a dock, fishing. Achille is beside him, drawing the cave in a notebook.
I Classici del Fumetto di Repubblica Nr. 01: Corto Maltese debut volume of a landmark collection launched in by the Italian newspaper La Repubblica I Classici del Fumetto Nr 01 Corto Maltese
That specific issue democratized high art. It took a complex, poetic, black-and-white (with color covers) Franco-Belgian comic and placed it in every tobacco shop and newsstand next to Il Giornalino and Topolino . It told a generation of Italian children that there was a world beyond cowboys and Indians—a world of melancholic sailors, lost civilizations, and anarchist poetry. Corto sits on a dock, fishing
“Corto! Still chasing women and lost islands?” Corto sits on a dock