In 1945 Pratt entered the Venice Academy of Fine Arts.
Story, and I don't know if even one of them is the true one, or more Them untrue, or as he once said: "I've 13 ways of telling my life Many stories about Pratt's early years, some of them true and some of Shipped to Austria after he had surrendered to the Allies. War, Pratt wroked some time as an interpreter for a fascist battalion.īefore returning with his mother to Venice in the early 1940s, he was According to some sources he died of liver cancer. Rolando, who hadĮnlisted in the Italian African Police, died in a POW camp in 1942,Īfter British forces had completed the conquest of the Italian EastĪfrica. Pratt entered the high school Vittorio Emanuele III. Youth Hugo went with his parents first to Venice, and then to Ethiopia
Genero, from Venice she was the widely traveled daughter of a pedicureĪnd poet. Hugo Pratt was born near Rimini, the son of Rolando Pratt, aįanatic supporter of Mussolini and professional soldier, and Evelina Those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not (Merlin:) Yes, but he's dreaming with his eyes a sailor sleeping, or perchance dreaming. Sense of humor seems to come from preposterous experience." (from Voodoo for the President, 1986) (Morgan Le Fay:). There is nothing stolen, or even borrowed, in Pratt's work even his The famous American cartoonist Frank Miller wrote: "His drawings showĪn attention to, and familiarity with, exotic detail, far beyond whatĬould be gleaned from a shelf full of National Geographic magazines. Ordinary world is underlined by the strange, remote surroundings, or as Travels mark his work, in which his hero's alienation from a dull, The world are followed from his youth to the 1930s, when Cortoĭisappears in the turmoils of the Spanish Civil War. Italian artist, cartoonist, whose best-known character is theĮxistentialist adventurer, captain Corto Maltese. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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