A true comics aficionado could spend weeks in Angouleme studying things like these original panels by Pratt, but most of the exhibits and the hard work that goes into them disappear after four days. Hugo Pratt led an amazing life, as detailed in this more extensive biographical essay. His most enduring character is an adventurer, a Royal Navy officer named Corto Maltese, whose foot-loose adventuring is said to mirror experiences of Pratt himself.