Editing Hugo Pratt (section)

===Argentine years===
[[File:Hugo Pratt (1989) by Erling Mandelmann.jpg|thumb|Pratt in 1989]]
In the late 1940s he moved to [[Buenos Aires]], where he worked for Argentine publisher Editorial Abril and met Argentine comics artists such as [[Alberto Breccia]] and [[Francisco Solano López (comics)|Solano López]]. The passage to [[Editorial Frontera]] saw the publication of some of his most important early series. These included ''[[Sergeant Kirk]]'' and ''[[Ernie Pike]]'', written by [[Héctor Germán Oesterheld]].

Pratt taught drawing in the Escuela Panamericana de Arte directed by Enrique Lipszyc. He often travelled to [[South America]]n destinations such as the [[Amazon basin|Amazon]] and [[Mato Grosso]]. During that period he produced his first comic book as a complete author, both writing and illustrating ''[[Anna della jungla]]'' (''Ann of the Jungle''), which was followed by the similar ''[[Capitan Cormorant]]'' and ''[[Fort Wheeling|Wheeling]]''. The latter was completed after his return to Italy.