![]() In 1943 he returned to Italy and attended the military college in Città di Castello.Īfter meeting Italian comic book artist Mario Faustinelli In 1945, Pratt helped create the magazine Asso di Picche (Ace of Spades). In the same year, Pratt and his mother were interned in a prison camp, where he would buy comics from guards. By late 1942, he died from disease as a prisoner of war. In 1941 Pratt’s father was captured by British troops. Caniff’s work was the inspiration that helped Pratt decide to become a cartoonist. During this period, he developed an interest in adventure novels and comic strips, discovering Terry and the Pirates by Milton Caniff. This experience gave him the opportunity to acquaint with soldiers from the Italian, British, Abyssinian, Senegalese and French army. Pratt, forced by his father, joined the colonial police when he was 14 years old. His father, a soldier in the Italian army, was transferred to the Italian colony in Abyssinia (Ethiopia), Africa. In 1937, Pratt, with his mother, followed his father to Abyssinia. Pratt was born June 15, 1927, in Rimini, Italy, but he spent his childhood in Venice, growing up in a cosmopolitan family environment. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pratt is often praised for his extensive research and factual visual details. Among his catalogue of achievement is the globetrotting adventurer Corto Maltese. Italian comic book creator, Hugo Eugenio Pratt, is widely considered to be one of the greatest graphic novelists of all time. ![]()
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