Corto Maltese: Tango

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In 1923 Buenos Aires while searching for a missing friend Corto finds himself locked in a dangerous yet elegant game of cat & mouse His investigation brings him up against an organized crime syndicate known as the " Warsavia" crooked police officials small-time crooks investigative journalists a worldwide prostitution ring &--manipulating the events from above--the far-reaching arm of the Argentine oligarchy Guiding his way through this labyrinth of deceit & intrigue is an old acquaintance from a long ago Patagonian escapade the legendary outlaw Butch Cassidy who with the Sundance Kid headed the notorious Wild Bunch & has been presumed dead for two decades! Just as Fable of Venice was Pratt&s homage to his hometown Tango is a nod to Buenos Aires where the cartoonist lived during his earliest creative successes in the late 1940s & 1950s The atmosphere of the story is steeped in the sensual music of the tango whose melodies almost seem to emerge from the artwork with close-ups of the dance steps framed by Pratt with extraordinary effectiveness The first English-language translation of Hugo Pratt&s graphic novel set in Argentina About the Author Hugo Pratt (1927-1995) is considered one of the great graphic novelists in the history of the medium His strips graphic works & watercolors have been exhibited at the Grand Palais in Paris & the Vittoriano in Rome & a landmark show in 2011 at the Pinacotheque in Paris drew 215000 visitors hailing Pratt as "the inventor of the literary comic strip"