Their magazine Asso di Picche, launched in 1945 as Albo Uragano, concentrated on adventure comics. Later Pratt joined the 'Venice Group' with other Italian cartoonists, including Alberto Ongaro, Gian Carlo Guarda and Mario Faustinelli. Īfter the war, Pratt moved to Venice where he organized entertainment for the Allied troops. The same year, Hugo Pratt and his mother were interned in a prison camp at Dirédaoua, where he would buy comics from guards, and later was sent back to Italy by the Red Cross. Pratt's father, a MVSN NCO, was captured in 1941 by British troops and, in late 1942, died from disease as a prisoner of war. In 1937, Pratt moved with his mother to Abyssinia ( Ethiopia), joining his father who had moved there following the conquest of that country by Benito Mussolini's Italy. His paternal grandfather Joseph was Catholic of English and Provencal origins, his maternal grandfather was of hidden Jewish descent and his grandmother was of Turkish origin.

In 1946 Hugo Pratt became part of the so-called Group of Venice with Fernando Carcupino, Dino Battaglia and Damiano Damiani.īorn 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. He was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2005. Ugo Eugenio Prat, better known as Hugo Pratt (15 June 1927 – 20 August 1995), was an Italian comic book creator who was known for combining strong storytelling with extensive historical research on works such as Corto Maltese.

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