Premiere on October 14, 2020.
Masters of Comics.
Corto Maltese – Under the North Sun, vol. 13
Script: Juan Díaz Canales
Drawings: Rubén Pellejero
Translation: Maria Mosiewicz
The thirteenth part of the adventures of a good-hearted adventurer who always takes the side of the weak and the oppressed. Corto Maltese this time goes to the Yukon … 1915. The ways of Rasputin and Corto Maltese diverge – the first one goes to the Caribbean, and the second decides to go to San Francisco to visit a friend, a famous writer. This is how the adventure begins that will take the handsome seaman to the far North, beyond the Arctic Circle. In the Canadian land of snow, Corto will get involved in the rebellion of the natives against British rule, take part in a bloody fight for the rights of enslaved women and – as usual – meet extraordinary historical figures. He will also get a chance for great wealth, but at the same time he will experience a painful love failure, the memory of which will haunt him for the rest of his life. The first twelve volumes of the Corto Maltese series were written by the Italian comic book master Hugo Pratt (1927–1995). From the thirteenth album, the series has been continued by two renowned Spanish authors: screenwriter Juan Díaz Canales (the best-selling series “Blacksad”) and cartoonist Rubén Pellejero (one-shot “Le silence de Malka”, awarded in 1997 with an award for foreign comics at the Comics Festival in Angoulême) .
