![]() ![]() His character Asso di Picche (Ace of Spades) was really popular especially in Argentina where he was invited during 1949. ![]() In 1944, he was at risk of being executed as SS troops had mistaken him for a South African spy.Īfter the war he moved to Venice where he started the 'Venice Group' with other Italian cartoonists and launched the magazine called 'Asso di Picche' in 1945.That magazine mostly had adventure comics. 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 professional Italian soldier, was captured in 1941 by British troops and in late 1942, died from disease as a prisoner of war. ![]() ![]() In 1937, Hugo Pratt moved with his mother to Abyssinia (Ethiopia), joining his father who was working there following the conquest of that country by Benito Mussolini's Italy. He was born in Rimini, Italy but he spent most of his childhood in Venice in a very cosmopolitan enviroment. ![]()
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