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Jesuit Joe

Field	Value
title	Jesuit Joe
image	Pratt-jesuitjoe01.jpg
caption	Cover of the French edition
publisher	Dargaud
date	1980
origlanguage	French
origpublication	Pilote magazine
origissues	#M74 - #M77
origdate	1980
origisbn	2-2033-4405-9
writers	Hugo Pratt
artists	Hugo Pratt
colorists	Patrizia Zanotti

title= Jesuit Joe

Jesuit Joe is a mysterious character who appears in the eponymous story of Italian comics creator Hugo Pratt. This graphic novel was initially serialised in Pilote magazine before it was released as hardcover albums in 1980, in France entitled Jésuite Joe, and in Italy, entitled L'uomo del grande nord, published by Dargaud and CEPIM, respectively.

In 2017 the graphic novel was published in English under the name The Man From the Great North by IDW Publishing, in an edition where storyboards made by Pratt for the movie mentioned below have been added to the story.

Plot

Jesuit Joe panel. Text in the balloon: "Too much happiness in these woods."

The laconic, anti-heroic and unpredictable main character, a Canadian native dressed in the uniform of a Sergeant in the Canadian Mounties, travels the wilderness during late 19th or early 20th century Canada, occasionally assisting those he finds in need of help. He rescues a kidnapped child and frees an imprisoned couple, but also shoots a bird for being too happy and stabs a priest in the hand.

The concerns of famed Italian cartoonist Hugo Pratt included responsibility, humanity, and social justice. Skepticism of European ideals in colonial settings is a common theme in his stories and forms the main thrust of Jesuit Joe.

The Jesuit Joe film

Jesuit Joe has been adapted into a film directed by Olivier Austen and starring French actress Laurence Treil.

Sources

Pratt publications in Pilote BDoubliées
Jesuit Joe albums Archivespratt
Jesuit Joe French albums Bedetheque ;Footnotes --

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