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Hugo Pratt was born in Venice, Italy. His father was a professional soldier and 1937 his family moved to Ethiopia after Mussolini's Italy had conquered it. His father died 1941 in a combat between Italian and British troops. Pratt was interned into a prison camp where he bought comics from guards.
After the war Pratt joined the so-called Venice Group with other Italian cartoonists like Alberto Ongaro and Mario Faustinelli . Their magazine Asso di Picche begun to appear in 1945. It concentrated on adventure comics.
1949 Pratt moved to Buenos Aires, ArgentinaArgentina is a Spanish-speaking country in southern South America, situated between the Andes in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east. It is bordered by Paraguay and Bolivia in the north, Brazil and Uruguay in the northeast and Chile in th, where he worked for Argentinean publisher Editorial Abril . He also met South AmericaSouth America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. South America is situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. It became attached to North America only recently, geologically speaking, win comics artists like José-Luís Salinas and Solano López . He returned to Italy in 1962Events January January 1 Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand January 3 Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro January 4 New York City introduces a train that operates without a crew on-board January 8 Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is e. His most famous series, Corto Maltese, began in 1967.Due to his rather mixed family ancestry, he learned snippets of things like kabbalism and lots of history.
Many of his stories are placed in real historical eras and events, like 1755Events January 25 Moscow University established. July 9 French and Indian War: Braddock Expedition British troops and colonial militiamen are ambushed and suffer a devastating defeat inflicted by French and Indian forces. During the battle, British Genera war between FrenchThe French Republic or France ( French: Republique francaise or France is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. and British colonists in TiconderogaTiconderoga is several things: Ticonderoga, New York Fort Ticonderoga in New York. Four separate Battles of Ticonderoga that occurred at the fort. Five separate ships named USS Ticonderoga The Ticonderoga class cruiser named after one of the ships, the US, colonial wars in Africa and both World Wars. He did lots of research for both factual and visual details and sometimes the characters are real historical people or closely based on them. Many of the minor characters cross over into other stories in way that places all Pratt’s stories into the same continuum.
Among his inspiration he stated writers like Joseph Conrad, Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville and Jack London, but also Milton Caniff (of Terry and the Pirates) and Will Eisner.