Indian Summer (Second Edition)

A lush, painterly European graphic novel originally serialized in the late 1980s, Indian Summer (Second Edition) is a single-issue volume from Catalan Communications that teams the legendary writer-artist Hugo Pratt with the masterful illustrator Milo Manara. Set in the colonial American frontier of the 18th century, the story follows a young Puritan woman whose encounter with a mysterious Native American shaman unravels the repressed passions and dark secrets of her rigid community. Manara’s sensuous, detailed artwork brings the wilderness and its inhabitants to vivid life, while Pratt’s evocative storytelling—completed here with Jeff Lisle—explores themes of desire, cultural collision, and the wildness within. A landmark collaboration between two titans of Italian comics, this edition stands as a striking, standalone work of historical fiction and adult drama.