Hugo Pratt, un gentilhomme de fortune #3

The second volume of Paolo Cossi's biographical series on the legendary Hugo Pratt brings us to Venice, rendered here with its unmistakable brick facades and canal bridges as the backdrop for a tense, urgent scene. A young man in military uniform rushes forward while the shadowy silhouette of a gun-wielding figure looms ominously on the wall behind him — danger pressing close in the city of lagoons. Published by Vertige Graphic in 2013, this is a compelling chapter in Cossi's portrait of one of comics' most adventurous lives.