Ernie Pike

Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Hugo Pratt’s Ernie Pike is a landmark war-comics series from Italian publisher Mondadori, launched in 1976. It follows the fictional war correspondent Ernie Pike, whose quiet, humanist perspective reframes battlefield stories through empathy rather than heroics. Pratt’s fluid, expressive linework and Oesterheld’s morally complex scripts make this a quietly essential work of the war genre. Though only a single issue was released under this series title, its influence endures as a model for mature, anti-war storytelling in comics.