Ernie Pike

Ernie Pike
Ernie Pike, drawn by Alberto Breccia.
Publication information
Publisher	Editorial Frontera
First appearance	Hora Cero #1 (May 1957)
Created by	Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Hugo Pratt

Ernie Pike is a comics series written by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and originally drawn by Hugo Pratt, starring a World War II and Korean War reporter. It was first published in the magazine "Hora Cero" in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1957. The reporter, loosely based on the real reporter Ernie Pyle, acts as a narrator of stories, without being directly involved in them. Such stories do not narrate real battles or exploits of noteworthy military people, being instead tragic stories of unknown soldiers, made up by the author. Oesterheld worked again with the character during the time of the Vietnam War, and Ricardo Barreiro used it for a brief story about the Falklands War.