Ticonderoga
[1957 / 1962]
H.G. Oesterheld
[SCRIPT]
Hugo Pratt
[DRAWINGS]
Against the backdrop of the Franco-British conflict over the southern territories of the United States, Oesterheld and Pratt brought to life this fable of initiation that draws from the literary universes of Jack London, Mark Twain and Herman Melville.
Louisiana Territory, mid-18th century. The orphan Ticonderoga Flint unites his desire for adventure with that of the young British soldier Caleb Lee. Thrown into a life full of emotions, both fall under the sway of the native warrior Numokh, who introduces them not only to the knowledge of the territory and its nature, but also to the human condition. The third collaboration between Héctor G. Oesterheld and Hugo Pratt was published between 1957 and 1962, in the magazines Hora Cero and Hora Cero Semanal, both published by Frontera. From its 26th issue, it began to be drawn by Gisela Dester, Pratt's assistant, who was inspired by it to create the character of Pandora Groovesnore, in La Balada del Mar Salado (The Ballad of the Salty Sea)
qué excelente este libro publicado en Europa por primera vez , empezó a circular en Argentina unos meses después
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Se ha traducido en muchos paÃs como Suiza, Italia y España. También en Argentina.
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Bio
[H.G. Oesterheld]
[Hugo Pratt]
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Héctor Germán Oesterheld
[Script]
Héctor Germán Oesterheld was born in Buenos Aires on July 23, 1919. Unanimously considered the most iconic author of Argentine comics and a global reference of the genre, he created more than 60 works throughout his career. Before establishing himself as a comic book author, he was editor of science fiction literature in the magazine Más Allá, and later, in Géminis. He published in the magazines Misterix, Hora Cero and Frontera, among many others. His best known characters are Sergeant Kirk, Ernie Pike, Sherlock Time and Mort Cinder, but it is undoubtedly The Eternauta the creation that gives him a place among the masters of comics. Towards the end of the 70's, in parallel with his social and political commitment, his works became more and more committed and openly critical of the military regimes of the time. After the 1976 coup d'état, Oesterheld went underground, where he continued writing scripts, among them the sequel to El Eternauta. On April 27, 1977, he was kidnapped by the "task forces" and has been missing ever since. In Argentina, the Day of the Comic Strip is celebrated on September 4, in commemoration of the first edition of Hora Cero magazine, in 1957.
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Hugo Pratt
[Drawings]
Ugo Eugenio Prat was born in Rimini, Italy, in 1927. At a very young age, together with other great Italian cartoonists such as Alberto Ongaro, Dino Battaglia and Mario Faustinelli, he created the magazine Asso di Picche (Ace of Pique).
The situation in post-war Italy prompted Pratt and several of his colleagues to settle in Argentina in 1949, where the comics scene was going through a moment of great expansion, both artistically and economically
There, in the editorial office of the Abril publishing house, he met Héctor G. Oesterheld, with whom he would create works that would make him famous as a cartoonist: Ernie Pike, Sergeant Kirk and Ticonderoga.
In the 1960s, he returned to Europe where he later became a full-fledged author and began publishing the Corto Maltese stories, one of the most celebrated characters of the universal comic strip
A hugely influential creator, global comic icon and adventurous character, Pratt died in Switzerland in 1995.