We know his profession: captain of the British merchant navy. We know that as such, he wears an earring in his left ear (it would be on the right if he belonged to the navy), but also a midnight blue pea coat, sorts of bell bottoms. white, a stylish cap and two sideburns. We also know that Corto Maltese is the son of a prostitute from Gibraltar and that he shares a lot of things with his creator, the great traveler, the high-flying scholar and anarchist like him, the cartoonist Hugo Pratt (dead in 1995).
Apart from that, what about the beautiful Corto? What kind of hero is he in the 9e Art and why are its readers so numerous? The question needs to be asked. It’s easy to know why we love Spider-Man’s aerobatics, Obelix’s wild boars or Captain Haddock’s blunders. But what appeals to Corto fans?
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All right, he’s handsome and knows how to send his number of balls. But it remains more difficult to pin down than an alley in Venice on a foggy night. By turns ironic, even I don’t care (“In embarrassing situations, I always play smart”he says in “Fable of Venice” (1981), this “gentleman of fortune” – elegant term to designate a kind of pirate – is ready to risk his own skin to save someone, even if he is not very popular (the bad guy Bradt in “Les Ethiopiques” in 1978,
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