With Pratt, the comic strip become art: enriched by cross-pollination and depth as never before and drawing a line that is not merely graphic, compelling those who came after to compare themselves with him. Literary quotations, historical references, and multi-voiced interpretations make Pratt’s works always subject to a second interpretation. He overturned stereotypes and, throughout his long career as a draughtsman and scriptwriter, he accompanied us on a discovery of what he himself defined as drawn literature.