![]() ![]() Pratt taught drawing in the Escuela Panamericana de Arte directed by Enrique Lipszyc. Kirk and Ernie Pike, written by Héctor Germán Oesterheld. The passage to Editorial Frontera saw the publication of some of his most important early series. ![]() ![]() In the late 1940s, he moved to Buenos Aires where he worked for Argentine publisher Editorial Abril and met Argentine comics artists like Alberto Breccia and Solano López. His eponymous character Asso di Picche (Ace of Spades) was a success, mainly in Argentina, where Pratt was invited in 1949. The magazine scored some success and published works by young talents, including Dino Battaglia. Their magazine Asso di Picche, launched in 1945, concentrated on adventure comics. Later Pratt joined the 'Venice Group' with other Italian cartoonists, including Alberto Ongaro and Mario Faustinelli. The same year, Hugo Pratt and his mother were interned in a prison camp at Dirédaoua, and later was sent back to Italy by the Red Cross.Īfter the war, Pratt moved to Venice where he organized entertainment for the Allied troops. Pratt's father was captured in 1941 by British troops and, in late 1942, died from disease as a prisoner of war. In 1937, Pratt moved with his mother to Abyssinia (Ethiopia), joining his father who had moved there following the conquest of that country by Italy. He was also related to actor Boris Karloff (né William Henry Pratt). Born in Rimini, Italy to Rolando Prat and Evelina Genero, Hugo Pratt spent most of his childhood in Venice in a very cosmopolitan family environment. ![]()
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