Il diradarsi e il dissiparsi. Il rapporto di Pratt con il pubblico nella serialità-non seriale di Corto Maltese=The relationship between Pratt and his audience in the non serial-serial narration of Corto Maltese

Abstract

The relationship between Pratt and his audience in the non serial-serial narration of Corto Maltese. Corto Maltese, more than just a comic, is the image of a cultural change taking place. Since "The Ballad of the salt sea", its first appearance, it breaks down the typical comic-book logic. Looking at Hugo Pratt works we can observe the definitive remediation of comics in new forms of expression, that will lead to a new cultural condition of the medium. Through merchandising, novels, reprints, Corto extends the boundaries of the narration in a scope never achieved before by Italian comics. In the last years, suspended in his fictional universe, Corto’s stories became less frequent, moving away from the serial form, but also from specific aspects of the character; until its rebirth, first in new media forms, such as videogames and animated series, then in a renewed comic book version realized by Juan Diaz Canales and Rubén Pellejero, that renovate its myth in a post-serial way.