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Oh its fantastic to hear the conversation about Hugo Pratt, one of my absolute favourites. Couple of things to add if I may be so cheeky while I have a moment. I have the last 5 minutes of the podcast still to listen to so if anything is covered there my apologise.

Clearly he is most famous for Corto Maltese as discussed. IDW under the imprint Euro Comics produced a full series English translations of the stories over a number of years from 2015 (I think it was) in quite beautiful volumes. They seem to be getting a little tricky to get hold of but the aftermarket is likely to be your friend there as you do see them come up from time to time. We discussed them as they came out on a thread here. If you are patient I'll be discussing these at some point in the future in some thread or other as they are absolute favourites of mine.

There are also 5 volumes of reprints from the Treasury, well there will be when the fifth you mention comes out in April. The one you missed has literally just landed at Taylor Towers The Crimson Sea which as I've mentioned elsewhere is a whooper of a collection of maritime tales and is out tomorrow as I type this.

There are also a few other translations of his work out there 'The man from the great north' also from IDW is about. Dark Horse (I think) also had a series called The Manara Library featuring the art of Milo Manara and the first volume of that has another of Pratt's most famous works in English 'Indian Summer' which he wrote, with another story written by him. Again alas these are starting to get a little tricky to track down, but with any luck.

Finally, I promise, there's a slight 2000ad link with Hugo Pratt as well. Carlos Ezquerra has always cited Pratt as one of his favourites and inflences. Pratt did a version of Treasure Island, incredibly popular on the continent and I've often speculated that Carlos' pen name 'Long John Silver' might have come from that. No evidence just a quiet desire.

Fantastic episode as ever and I'm so jealous you are going to Angouleme. I dream of going there one day. Hope you had a fantastic time!

Thanks, Colin, I had a great time at a fascinating festival and will be discussing it with Tony Esmond on a bonus episde next Sunday. And thank you for the extra information. I did overlook the Crimson Sea reprint, and I'm going to have to look out for some more english language versions of Corto Malteses on the second hand markets. Cheers.

Jim O'Brien joins me to discuss Night of the Devil from the Treasury of British Comics and to talk about the life and works of the great Hugo Pratt.

https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2024/01/249-night-of-devil.html

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mega-city-book-club/id1116473423

His name is Conrad, he's been to the movies, and he has some thoughts about them!
As we edge closer to the triumphant return of SpaceSpinner2000 fill your ears with some more LA Leiden.
Oh and mid credit scene spoilers for both films with "man in a box eamonn" giving a time stamp warning during the episode.

https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2024/01/248-marvels-and-aquaman-2.html
Apple=
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/248-the-marvels-and-aquaman-2/id1116473423?i=1000642360579
or google podcasts link (c'mon google, shorten those links please)
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Thanks, JBC and Richard. Great stuff.

Here are two grails from Milligan and Hewlett chosen by James in 247.

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Script droid James Peaty makes a 4th visit to the book club to discuss a reality altering hairstyle crafted by the talented hands of Peter Milligan and Jamie Hewlett.

https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2024/01/247-hewligans-haircut.html
Or in Apple Podcasts at
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mega-city-book-club/id1116473423?i=1000641577185
Google podcasts link coming

and two wonderful grail pages for Peter from the new Helltrekkers collection
Firstly Jose Ortiz


and then Horacio Lalia on the cover of prog 408.

Fire up your Radwagon, make sure you've packed some high factor lava block and and an acid proof umbrella, and let's head out into the Cursed Earth. Peter Adamson from the Where Eagles Dare podcast is your guide as we join the Helltrekkers setting out in the hope of a better life.

https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2023/12/246-helltrekkers.html

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mega-city-book-club/id1116473423?i=1000640119634

Or on Google podcasts at
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Two grails for David Nolan.
First Bryan Hitch

and then Geoff Senior from the Body in Question.

I'm a big fan of Marvel Transformers and those are absolutely beautiful pages from two of the best stories.

Would love to see a brand new collection at original UK size.

Cheers

My mate Tim Perkins worked on this as a colourist

Very cool. Thanks

David Nolan joins the book club to complete the Death's Head chat. Just don't call him a bounty hunter, yes? We also talk about David's own books.
Listen at
https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2023/12/245-deaths-head.html
Or
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mega-city-book-club/id1116473423?i=1000638821654

and this is Rob Wiliams' grail page by Moore and Davis. The Fury is down, can Cap finish it off?

I spoke to Rob Williams about Captain Britain and the Fury, his new Petrol Head comic with Pye Parr (it's great btw), and some upcoming plans for Dredd.
In your podcast app, or at
https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2023/12/244-petrol-head.html
and
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/244-petrol-head/id1116473423?i=1000638052204

A Geoff Senior grail page for Michael Crowder



and then a Bryan Hitch

Michael Crowder returns to help me tick off some robots in disguise in the pages of Marvel UK,and to discuss some great work by Furman, Senior, Anderson, Smith, Higgins, Hitch and more.
Listen at
https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2023/11/243-transformers.html
or
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/243-transformers/id1116473423?i=1000637303603