Hugo Pratt

Cartoonist

Birthday June 15, 1927

Birth Sign Gemini

Birthplace Rimini, Italy

DEATH DATE Aug 20, 1995 (68)

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About

Eisner Award-winning comic book author who wrote about Corto Maltese. He won the Best Foreign Comic Book Award at the Angouleme Festival for his work Indian Summer.

Before Fame

He briefly worked for Argentine publisher Editorial Abril in Buenos Aires.

Trivia

In 2005, he was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame.

Family Life

He spent a large amount of his childhood in Venice, growing up in a very progressive, cosmopolitan family.

Associated With

He and comic writer Stan Lee are both recipients of the Eisner Award.