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Thursday, June 14, 2025

Hugo Pratt was a Quack Artist!

Hugo Pratt the famed and revered Italian comic book straight adventure artist of Corto Maltese was in league with Milton Caniff and Alex Toth. Therefore, the cartoony, abstract, artsy images below that he did in tribute to Donald Duck (or Paperino as the Italians call Disney’s man mallard) in 1982 may surprise you.


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— C. Yoe (in the funny papers)

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This entry was posted on Thursday, June 14th, 2007 at 5:53 pm.
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3 Responses to “Hugo Pratt was a Quack Artist!”

  1. Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » June 15, 2007: Pleasant Dullsville weekend Says:
    June 15th, 2007 at 3:45 am

    [...] Craig Yoe presents Corto Maltese creator Hugo Pratt’s semi-abstract tribute to Donald Duck. [...]

  2. john567 Says:
    June 16th, 2007 at 12:20 pm

    wow. who knew?

  3. Donald Duck a la Pratt » The Ephemerist Says:
    June 20th, 2007 at 5:39 am

    [...] From The Arflovers Blog : Hugo Pratt’s take at Donald Duck. Oh, and they also have rss-feeds these days ! Yesh ! [...]

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