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Hugo Pratt (1927-1995), author and artist, was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2005 and was awarded the Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême at the Angoulême Festival. He is one of the greatest international graphic novelists. Born in Italy and hailed as "the inventor of the literary comic strip," he is best known for his popular comic book adventurer, Corto Maltese. Dean Mullaney is the winner of multiple Eisner Awards for his work as editor and publisher at Eclipse Comics. He is the creative director and editor of The Library of American Comics. Simone Castaldi is a Professor of Italian at Hofstra University in New York where he teaches cinema, literature, and comics studies. He is the author of the first in-depth English language study of Italian comics, Drawn and Dangerous (University Press of Mississippi), a book analyzing the intersection of the postmodern arts with Italian auteur comics during the 1980s. He has also published articles and contributed chapters to books on Italian cinema, literature, and comics. In 2020, in collaboration with Dean Mullaney, he completed the translation of Hugo Pratt's Corto Maltese, a twelve-volume series for The Library of American Comics (IDW). |
