Gianni Pacinotti, better known by the pseudonym of Gipi, is an Italian
cartoonist
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, filmmaker, and author.
Biography
Born in
Pisa
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in 1963, he began his career illustrating for the publishing and advertising industries.
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He began illustrating stories and comics in 1992, and his work appeared in ''Cuore
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'', ''Blue
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'', '' Il Clandestino'', ''Boxer Boxer most commonly refers to:
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'', '' Il Manifesto'' and '' Lo Straniero''. His work also appears in ''La Repubblica
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His graphic novel
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''Appunti per una storia di guerra'' (''Notes for a War Story''), published by Coconino Press
Coconino Press is an Italian publisher of comic books, founded in 2000 in Bologna, Italy.
They are notable for their translations of comic books from around the world, including the Americans Daniel Clowes, Jason Lutes, Simon Hanselmann and Adr ...
, appeared in France and was published in the United States by First Second Books
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. It won the 2005 Goscinny Prize for Best Script and was proclaimed Best Book at Angoulême
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in 2006. ''Notes for a War Story'' follows three young men in a war-torn country –intended to be any number of European countries. "In the Italian version of the book", Gipi has remarked, "the name of the villages are Italian names, in the French version, French names. I didn't want the reader to think, ‘This war happens elsewhere, far from me.’ My intention was to make people think about the possibilities of a war suddenly arriving in their own home".
Gipi has created ''Gli innocenti'' (''The Innocents'') for the Ignatz Series
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History
Founding
Fantagraphics was founde ...
and in 2006 this work earned him an Eisner Award
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nomination and a Max & Moritz Prize
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1984 ...
. ''The Innocents'' is about a reformed thug who takes his young nephew down to the seaside, where they visit an old friend who has just been released out of prison for a crime he did not commit.Fantagraphics Books – Gipi
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Other work
In 2000, he founded Santa Maria Video. Santa Maria is a studio through which he creates video and animation shorts. His debut as a film director, ''The Last Earthling
''The Last Man on Earth'' is a 2011 Italian science fiction drama film directed by Gian Alfonso Pacinotti. Its original Italian title is ''L'ultimo terrestre'', which means "The last earthling". The story follows a man with relational problems wh ...
'', premiered at the 68th Venice International Film Festival
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In 2015, he successfully crowdfunded and launched ''Bruti'', a card game about melee combats between warriors and enchanters set in a dark fantasy with a medieval feel. Gipi designed the game and illustrated each card. The deluxe version of the rulebook includes a long introductory comic.
Works
Graphic novels
*''Esterno notte'' (2003)
*''Notes for a War Story'' (''Appunti per una storia di guerra'', 2004)
*''Garage Band'' (''Questa è la stanza'', 2005)
*''S.'' (2006)
*''LMVDM – La mia vita disegnata male'' (2008)
*''One Story'' (''Unastoria'', 2013)
*''Land of the Sons'' (''La terra dei figli'', 2016)
*''Momenti straordinari con applausi finti'', Bologna, Coconino Press, 2019.
*''MBDL - My badly drawn life'', Seattle, Fantagraphics Books Inc, 2022.
Short stories
*''The Innocents'' (''Gli innocenti'', 2005)
*''They Found the Car'' (''Hanno ritrovato la macchina'', 2006)
*''Diario di fiume e altre storie'' (2009)
*''Verticali'' (2009)
*''Baci dalla provincia'' (2011)
Filmography
* '' The Last Man on Earth'' (2011)
* '' Smettere di fumare fumando'' (2012)
* ''Il ragazzo più felice del mondo
''Il ragazzo più felice del mondo'' () is a 2018 comedy-mockumentary film directed by Gipi
Gianni Pacinotti, better known by the pseudonym of Gipi, is an Italian cartoonist, filmmaker, and author.
Biography
Born in Pisa in 1963, he began his ...
'' (2018)
* ' (dir. Claudio Cupellini
Claudio Cupellini (born 18 February 1973) is an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Biography
In 1999, Cupellini realized his first short-movie ''Le diable au vélo'' and then took part to two anthology films: ''Sei pezzi facili'' and ''4 ...
, 2021)
References
External links
Gipi’s website
Words Without Borders: “Taken from Life: An Interview with Gipi”
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Italian cartoonists
Italian comics artists
People from Pisa
1963 births
Living people
Inkpot Award winners