Corto Maltese comes home: Valletta hosts conference on comic strip’s legacy

A Franco-Italian conference on Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese adventure comics is taking place on April 29 and 30 in Valletta. Although the entirety of Pratt’s (1927–1995) comic-book oeuvre is today rightly regarded as both art and literature, it is undoubtedly the stories featuring Corto Maltese that have most profoundly shaped the collective imagination