Ugo Eugenio Prat, better known as Hugo Pratt, was an Italian comic book creator who was known for combining strong storytelling with extensive historical research on works such as Corto Maltese.
14 Facts About Hugo Pratt
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Hugo Pratt was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2005.
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In 1946 Hugo Pratt became part of the so-called Group of Venice with Fernando Carcupino, Dino Battaglia and Damiano Damiani.
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In 1937, Pratt moved with his mother to Abyssinia, joining his father who had moved there following the conquest of that country by Benito Mussolini's Italy.
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Later Hugo Pratt joined the 'Venice Group' with other Italian cartoonists, including Alberto Ongaro, Gian Carlo Guarda and Mario Faustinelli.
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Hugo Pratt's eponymous character Asso di Picche was a success, mainly in Argentina, where Pratt was invited in 1949.
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Hugo Pratt taught drawing in the Escuela Panamericana de Arte directed by Enrique Lipszyc.
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Hugo Pratt often travelled to South American destinations like the Amazon and Mato Grosso.
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Hugo Pratt then returned to Argentina, despite the harsh economic times there.
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In 1967, Hugo Pratt met Florenzo Ivaldi; the two created a comics magazine named after his character, Il Sergente Kirk, the hero first written by Hector Oesterheld.
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Hugo Pratt wrote stories for his friend and pupil Milo Manara for Tutto ricomincio con un'estate indiana and El Gaucho.
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From 1970 to 1984, Hugo Pratt lived mainly in France where Corto Maltese, a psychologically very complex character resulting from the travel experiences and the endless inventive capacity of his author, became the main character of a comics series.
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Hugo Pratt cited authors like Robert Louis Stevenson, James Oliver Curwood, Zane Grey, Kenneth Roberts, Henry De Vere Stacpoole, Joseph Conrad, Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville and Jack London as influences, along with cartoonists Lyman Young, Will Eisner, and especially Milton Caniff.
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One of the series created by Hugo Pratt, entitled "The Scorpions of the Desert" in English, has been continued after Hugo Pratt's death.