Hugo Pratt

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Ugo Eugenio Prat (15 June 1927 – 20 August 1995), 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. He was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2005, and was awarded the 15th anniversary special Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême at the Angoulême Festival. 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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Early years Born in Rimini, Italy, to Rolando Prat and Evelina (Genero) Prat, Ugo Eugenio Prat spent much of his childhood in Venice in a very cosmopolitan family environment. His paternal grandfather Joseph was a Catholic of English and French descent, while his maternal grandfather was of Jewish descent and his grandmother of Turkish descent. In 1937, Pratt moved with his mother to Italian East Africa, joining his father who had moved there following the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. Pratt's father, a non-commissioned officer in the Blackshirts, was captured in 1941 by British troops and in late 1942 died from disease as a prisoner of war. In the same year, Pratt and his mother were interned in an Allied prison camp at Dirédaoua, where he would buy comics from camp guards, and later was sent back to Italy by the Red Cross. After the war, Pratt moved to Venice where he organized entertainment for Allied troops. Later Pratt joined the Venice Group with other Italian cartoonists, including Alberto Ongaro, Gian Carlo Guarda and Mario Faustinelli. Their magazine Asso di Picche, launched in 1945 as Albo Uragano, concentrated on adventure comics. The magazine scored some success and published works by young talents,…Citește mai mult

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Argentine years In the late 1940s he moved to Buenos Aires, where he worked for Argentine publisher Editorial Abril and met Argentine comics artists such as Alberto Breccia and Solano López. The passage to Editorial Frontera saw the publication of some of his most important early series. These included Sergeant Kirk and Ernie Pike, written by Héctor Germán Oesterheld. Pratt taught drawing in the Escuela Panamericana de Arte directed by Enrique Lipszyc. He often travelled to South American destinations such as the Amazon and Mato Grosso. During that period he produced his first comic book as a complete author, both writing and illustrating Anna nella giungla (Ann of the Jungle), which was followed by the similar Capitan Cormorant and Wheeling. The latter was completed after his return to Italy. Return to Italy and the creation of Corto Maltese From the summer of 1959 to the summer of 1960, Pratt lived in London where he drew a series of war comics for Fleetway Publications, with British scriptwriters. He then returned to Argentina, despite the harsh economic times there. From there, he moved again to Italy in 1962 where he started a collaboration with the children's comic book magazine Corriere dei Piccoli,…Citește mai mult

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Later years From 1970 to 1984, 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. Initially published from 1970 to 1973 by the magazine Pif Gadget, it brought him much popular and critical success. Later published in album format, this series was eventually translated into fifteen languages. From 1984–95 he lived in Switzerland, where the international success that Corto Maltese sparked continued to grow. In France, most of his pre-Corto Maltese works were published in several album editions by publishers such as Casterman, Dargaud, and Les Humanoïdes Associés. A wanderer by nature, Hugo Pratt continued to travel from Canada to Patagonia, from Africa to the Pacific area. He died of bowel cancer on 20 August 1995. Pratt cited authors such as 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. On Friday, 15 July 2005, at San Diego Comic-Con's 17th Annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, he was…Citește mai mult

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Documentaries Swiss director Stefano Knuchel started a trilogy of documentaries about Pratt, releasing Hugo en Afrique in 2009, followed by Hugo in Argentina in 2021. In 2022, Knuchel announced working on the third part of the trilogy, Hugo in Venice.

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Awards 1969: Gran Guinigi per il disegnatore italiano (award for an Italian artist) at the Lucca Comics & Games, for Una ballata del mare salato 1974: Prix Saint-Michel, for the best realistic story 1976: Angoulême Festival, Best foreign realistic comic book, for La ballade de la mer salée

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1981: Angoulême Festival, Elle award 1987: Angoulême Festival, Best foreign comic book, for Indian Summer 1988: Angoulême Festival, 15th anniversary special Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême 1994: International Cartoonists Exhibition, U Giancu's Prize 1996: Max & Moritz Prizes, Germany, Best German language comic import, for Saint-Exupéry - le dernier vol 2005: inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame

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Main works Asso di Picche (L'As de pique, Ace of Spades, 1945–1949) El Sargento Kirk (Sergeant Kirk, 1953–1959), written by Héctor Oesterheld

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Ticonderoga (1957–1958), written by Héctor Oesterheld Ernie Pike (1957–1959), written by Héctor Oesterheld Ann y Dan (Anna nella giungla, Ann of the Jungle, Ann de la jungle, 1959)

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Corto Maltese (1967–1992) Una ballata del mare salato (1967) - translated into English as Ballad of The Salt Sea (Harvill Press 1996)

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Il segreto di Tristan Bantam (1970) Corto toujours un peu plus loin - partly translated into English as The Banana Conga (1970-1971) Le Celtiche (1972) - translated into English as The Celts, (Harvill Press 1996) and A Mid-Winter Morning's Dream (1971–1972)

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Mu (1988) Gli scorpioni del deserto - Les Scorpions du Desert, The Scorpions of the Desert (1969–92) Les Scorpions du désert (Episode 1, 1969–73)

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L'uomo della Somalia (1979) L'uomo del gran nord - Jesuit Joe (1980) Tutto ricominciò con un'estate indiana (Indian Summer, 1983, with Milo Manara)

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Biography by Paul Gravett Retrieved 14-05-2009 Hugo in Africa - a film by Stefano Knuchel Archived 2019-04-18 at the Wayback Machine La Casa di Corto Maltese - House Museum