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Hugo Pratt
Birth name Hugo Eugenio Pratt
Born June 15, 1927(1927-06-15)
Rimini, Italy
Died August 20, 1995 (aged 68)
Grandvaux, Switzerland
Nationality Italian
Area(s) Writer, Artist
Notable works Corto Maltese
Gli scorpioni del deserto
Jesuit Joe
Saint-Exupéry
Awards full list

Hugo Eugenio Pratt (June 15, 1927 – August 20, 1995) was an Italian comic book creator who combined his strong storytelling talent with extensive historical research on Corto Maltese and his other series. Events 763 BC - Assyrians record a Solar eclipse that will be used to fix the Chronology of Mesopotamian history Year 1927 ( MCMXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Rimini is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy and capital city of the Province of Rimini. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Events 636 - Battle of Yarmouk: Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of Syria and Palestine Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Grandvaux is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Lavaux. Switzerland (English pronunciation; Schweiz Swiss German: Schwyz or Schwiiz Suisse Svizzera Svizra officially the Swiss Confederation Corto Maltese is a Comics series featuring an Eponymous character a complex sailor-adventurer Events 763 BC - Assyrians record a Solar eclipse that will be used to fix the Chronology of Mesopotamian history Year 1927 ( MCMXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 636 - Battle of Yarmouk: Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of Syria and Palestine Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest A comic book creator is any one of a number of people working to create a Comic book or Graphic novel. Corto Maltese is a Comics series featuring an Eponymous character a complex sailor-adventurer He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2005. The Will Eisner Comic Industry Award is a prize given for creative achievement in American Comic books It is named in honor of the pioneering writer and artist Will Eisner

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Biography

Early years

Born in Rimini in Romagna to Rolando Pratt and Evelina Genero, Hugo Pratt spent all his childhood in Venice in a very cosmopolitan family environment. Rimini is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy and capital city of the Province of Rimini. Romagna is an Italian historical region that approximately corresponds to the south-eastern portion of present-day Emilia-Romagna. Venice ( Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in Northern Italy, the capital of the His paternal grandfather Joseph was of English origin, while his maternal grandfather was a Marrano Jew and his grandmother was of Turkish origin. Marranos or Secret Jews were Sephardic Jews (Jews resident in the Iberian peninsula) who were forced to adopt Christianity or He was also related to the actor Boris Karloff, whose real name was William Henry Pratt. Boris Karloff ( 23 November, &ndash 2 February,) was an English actor who emigrated to Canada in the 1910s In 1937, Hugo Pratt moved with his mother to Abyssinia (Ethiopia), joining his father working there after the conquest of that country by Mussolini's Italy. Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. NOTE This intro is the result of careful NPOV work Please do not make potentially controversial edits to it without first discussing on the talk page NOTE This intro is the result of careful NPOV work Please do not make potentially controversial edits to it without first discussing on the talk page Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Pratt's father was a professional Italian soldier who was captured in 1941 by the British troops and in late 1942 died from disease as a prisoner of war. Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The same year, Hugo Pratt and his mother were interned into a prison camp at Dirédaoua where he bought comics from guards and later was sent back to Italy by the Red Cross. In 1944 he was at risk of being executed as SS troops had mistaken him for a South African spy. Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The ( German for "Protective Squadron" abbreviated SS - or ( Runic)- was a major Nazi organization under Adolf Hitler and the The Republic of South Africa (also known by other official names) is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa

After the war, Pratt moved to Venice where he organized spectacles for the Allied troops. Later Pratt joined the Venice Group with other Italian cartoonists, including Alberto Ongaro and Mario Faustinelli. Mario Faustinelli ( November 8, 1924 - July 31, 2006) was an Italian Comic book artist and editor. His inspiration could be traced back to his reading of authors like James Oliver Curwood, Zane Gray, Kenneth Roberts, as well as the comic books by Lyman Young, Will Eisner and mainly Milton Caniff. James Oliver Curwood, ( June 12, 1878 – August 13, 1927) was an American novelist and Conservationist. Zane Grey ( January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure Novels and Kenneth Lewis Roberts ( December 8, 1885 – July 21, 1957) was an American author of historical novels Lyman W Young ( October 20, 1893 - February 12, 1984) was an American Cartoonist who created the strip Tim Tyler's Luck William Erwin Eisner ( March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005) was an acclaimed American Comics Writer, Artist and Milton Arthur Paul Caniff ( February 28, 1907 - April 3, 1988) was an American Cartoonist famous for the Terry Their magazine, Asso di Picche, launched in 1945 as Albo Uragano, concentrated on adventure comics. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar The magazine scored some success and published works by young talents like Dino Battaglia, Rinaldo D'Ami and Giorgio Bellavitis. Dino Battaglia ( August 1, 1923 - October 4, 1983) was an Italian comic artist noted for a distinctive and expressive style best known for his The character Asso di Picche ("Ace of Spades") was a success, mainly in Argentina, where Pratt was invited in 1949. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Argentinian years

In the late 1940s, he moved to Buenos Aires where he worked for Argentine publisher Editorial Abril and met Argentinian comics artists like José Luis Salinas, Alberto Breccia and Solano López. Buenos Aires is the Capital and largest city of Argentina. It is geographically located on the southern shore of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern Alberto Breccia ( April 15, 1919 - November 10, 1993) was an Uruguay -born Argentine Comics artist and writer Francisco Solano López (born October 26, 1928 in Buenos Aires) is a Comics artist. The passage to Editorial Frontera saw the publication of some of the most important series by Pratt. These included Junglemen (written by Ongaro), Sgt. Kirk, Ernie Pike and Ticonderoga. Sergeant Kirk, El Sargento Kirk or Sgt Kirk, is the title and main character of a western Comics series by Ernie Pike is a Comics series written by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and originally drawn by Hugo Pratt, featuring a World War II and The latter were all written by Héctor Germán Oesterheld, one of the major writer of Argentinian and perhaps world comics. Héctor Germán Oesterheld (born July 23, 1919, disappeared and presumed dead 1977 was an Argentine Journalist and Writer Pratt taught drawing in the Escuela Panamericana de Arte directed by Enrique Lipszyc. He often travelled to South American destinations like Amazon and Mato Grosso. South America is a Continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a Mato Grosso ('matu 'gɾosu is one of the states of Brazil, the third largest in area, located in the western part of the country During that period he produced his first comic book as a complete author, Anna della jungla ("Ann of the Jungle"), which was followed by the similar Capitan Cormorant and Wheeling. Fort Wheeling, or simply Wheeling, is the title of a comics series set in Colonial North America, by Italian comics The latter was completed after his return to Italy.

Return to Italy and the creation of Corto Maltese

Cover of Italian publication Una ballata del mare salato
Cover of Italian publication Una ballata del mare salato

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. The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Fleetway, also known as Fleetway Publications and Fleetway Editions, was a publishing company mainly producing comic magazines for the UK. After that he returned to Argentina, despite harsh economic times. From there he moved again to Italy in 1962 where he started a collaboration with the child comic book magazine Il Corriere dei Piccoli, for which he adapted several classics of adventure literature, including Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Corriere dei Piccoli ( Italian for "Courier of the Little Ones" nicknamed Corrierino ("Little Courier" was an influential Treasure Island is an adventure Novel by author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "pirates and buried gold" Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850–3 December 1894 was a Scottish novelist poet and travel writer, and a representative of Neo-romanticism in

In 1967, Pratt met Florenzo Ivaldi, and with him created a comics magazine named after his hero, Sgt. Kirk, the character first written by Héctor Oesterheld. Héctor Germán Oesterheld (born July 23, 1919, disappeared and presumed dead 1977 was an Argentine Journalist and Writer In the first issue Pratt's most famous story was published: Una ballata del mare salato, which introduced his best known character, Corto Maltese. Corto Maltese is a Comics series featuring an Eponymous character a complex sailor-adventurer

Corto's series continued three years later on the French magazine Pif. Due to his rather mixed family ancestry, Pratt had learned snippets of things like kabbalism and lots of history. Kabbalah (קַבָּלָה lit "receiving" is a discipline and school of thought discussing the mystical aspect of Judaism. Many of his stories are placed in real historical eras and deal with real events: the 1755 war between French and British colonists in Ticonderoga, colonial wars in Africa and both World Wars, for example. Year 1755 ( MDCCLV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. A world war is a War affecting the majority of the world's most powerful and populous nations Pratt did exhaustive research for factual and visual details, and some characters are real historical figures or closely based on them, like Corto's main opponent, Rasputin. Many of the minor characters cross over into other stories in a way that places all Pratt’s stories into the same continuum.

Pratt's main series in the second part of his career include Gli scorpioni del deserto (five stories) and Jesuit Joe. Jesuit Joe is a mysterious character who appears in the eponymous story of Italian comics creator Hugo Pratt. He also collaborated with his friend and pupil Milo Manara for Tutto ricominciò con un'estate indiana and El Gaucho. Milo Manara, byname of Maurilio Manara (born September 12, 1945 in Luson, Bolzano-Bozen) is an Italian Comic book

Later years

From 1970 to 1984, Pratt lived mainly in France where Corto Maltese became the main character of a comics series initially published, from 1970 to 1973, by the magazine Pif gadget, which brought him the recognition both of the general public and of the critics. Published as comic book, this series was translated into fifteen languages.

From 1984 to 1995 Pratt lived in Switzerland. Switzerland (English pronunciation; Schweiz Swiss German: Schwyz or Schwiiz Suisse Svizzera Svizra officially the Swiss Confederation He owed his international success to Corto Maltese, a very psychologically complex character resulting from the travel experiences and the endless invention capacity of his author. Wanderer by nature, Hugo Pratt continued to travel from Canada to Patagonia, from Africa to the Pacific area. He died of cancer on 20th August 1995.

Pratt has cited Joseph Conrad, Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville and Jack London as influences, along with Milton Caniff and Will Eisner. Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924 was a Polish-born English novelist James Fenimore Cooper (September 15 1789 &ndash September 14 1851 was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century Herman Melville (August 1 1819 &ndash September 28 1891 was an American novelist Short story writer Essayist and poet Jack London (January 12 1876 &ndash November 22 1916 was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Milton Arthur Paul Caniff ( February 28, 1907 - April 3, 1988) was an American Cartoonist famous for the Terry William Erwin Eisner ( March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005) was an acclaimed American Comics Writer, Artist and

On Friday, July 15, 2005, at San Diego Comic-Con's 17th Annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, he was one of four professionals that year inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame. Comic-Con International San Diego, commonly known as Comic-Con or the San Diego Comic-Con, is an annual multigenre Fan convention founded as the Golden The Will Eisner Comic Industry Award is a prize given for creative achievement in American Comic books It is named in honor of the pioneering writer and artist Will Eisner

One of the series created by Pratt, entitled "The Scorpions of the Desert" in English, has been resumed after Pratt's death: In 2005 a Sixth volume in this series was released, drawn by Pierre Wazeem and entitled "Le chemin de fievre". A Seventh album was scheduled by the French publishers Casterman for release in March 2008. Casterman have also on several occasions hinted at the possible future release of a further episode in the Corto Maltese saga.

Main works

Panels from Jesuit Joe.
Panels from Jesuit Joe. Jesuit Joe is a mysterious character who appears in the eponymous story of Italian comics creator Hugo Pratt.

Awards

Sources

Footnotes
  1. ^ Centro Studi Iconografici. Jesuit Joe is a mysterious character who appears in the eponymous story of Italian comics creator Hugo Pratt. Milo Manara, byname of Maurilio Manara (born September 12, 1945 in Luson, Bolzano-Bozen) is an Italian Comic book Milo Manara, byname of Maurilio Manara (born September 12, 1945 in Luson, Bolzano-Bozen) is an Italian Comic book Lucca is a city in Tuscany, northern central Italy, situated on the river Serchio in a fertile plain near (but not on the Ligurian Sea The Prix Saint-Michel is a series of comic awards presented by the city of Brussels. Angoulême International Comics Festival ( French: Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême) is the main comics festival in Europe This Prize for Best Comic Book is awarded to comics authors at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. This media award was presented at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. This Prize for Best Comic Book is awarded to comics authors at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. Every year the Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême is awarded during the Angoulême International Comics Festival to an author for his body of work and/or for his achievement The Max & Moritz Prize is a prize for Comic books Comic strips and other similar materials which has been awarded at each of the biennial International Comics Shows The Will Eisner Comic Industry Award is a prize given for creative achievement in American Comic books It is named in honor of the pioneering writer and artist Will Eisner 5 Salone Internazionale dei Comics (Italian).
  2. ^ Le Palmarès 1976 (French). ToutEnBD.
  3. ^ Le Palmarès 1981 (French). ToutEnBD.
  4. ^ Le Palmarès 1987 (French). ToutEnBD.
  5. ^ Le Palmarès 1988 (French). ToutEnBD.

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