Italian cartoonist, filmmaker, and author (pen name of Gianni Pacinotti)
Gianni Pacinotti
Born (1963-12-12 ) December 12, 1963 (age 60) PisaNationality Italian Area(s) Comics artist, cartoonist, filmmaker, author Pseudonym(s) Gipi Awards 2005 Goscinny Prize, Max & Moritz Prize, Best Book at Angoulême 2008
Inkpot Award
[1]
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 career illustrating for the publishing and advertising industries.
[2]
He began illustrating stories and comics in 1992, and his work appeared in
Cuore ,
Blue ,
Il Clandestino ,
Boxer ,
Il Manifesto and
Lo Straniero .
[2] His work also appears in
La Repubblica .
[3]
His
graphic novel Appunti per una storia di guerra (Notes for a War Story ), published by
Coconino Press , appeared in France and was published in the United States by
First Second Books .
[3] It won the
2005 Goscinny Prize for Best Script and was proclaimed
Best Book at
Angoulême in 2006.
[3] 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".
[4]
Gipi has created Gli innocenti (The Innocents ) for the
Ignatz Series and in 2006 this work earned him an
Eisner Award nomination and a
Max & Moritz Prize .
[2] 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.
[5]
Other work
In 2000, he founded Santa Maria Video. Santa Maria is a studio through which he creates video and animation shorts.
[2] His debut as a film director,
The Last Earthling , premiered at the
68th Venice International Film Festival .
[6]
In 2015, he successfully crowdfunded and launched Bruti ,
[7] 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 (in Italian). Bologna:
Coconino Press . 2003
Garage Band . New York:
First Second Books . 2005.
S (in Italian). Bologna: Coconino Press. 2006
Notes for a War Story . New York: First Second Books. 2007 [2004].
Land of the Sons . Seattle:
Fantagraphics Books . 2018 [2016].
ISBN
9781683960775 .
Momenti straordinari con applausi finti (in Italian). Bologna: Coconino Press. 2019.
ISBN
8876185232
One Story . Seattle: Fantagraphics Books. 2020 [2008].
MBDL - My Badly Drawn Life . Seattle: Fantagraphics Books. 2022 [2008].
ISBN
9781683965213 .
Anthologies
The Innocents. Wish You Were Here . Vol. 1. Seattle: Fantagraphics Books. 2005.
ISBN
9781560977575 .
They Found the Car. Wish You Were Here . Vol. 2. Seattle: Fantagraphic Books. 2006.
ISBN
9781560978015 .
Diario di fiume e altre storie (in Italian). Bologna: Coconino Press. 2009
Verticali (in Italian). Bologna: Coconino Press. 2009
Baci dalla provincia (in Italian). Bologna: Coconino Press. 2011
Filmography
References
External links
Special Jury Prize:
Denise McSmith (1975) •
Stefano D'Arrigo (1977) •
Yury Trifonov (1978) •
Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1979) •
Pietro Consagra (1980) •
Ignazio Buttitta ,
Angelo Maria e Ela Ripellino (1983) •
Leonardo Sciascia (1985) •
Wang Meng (1987) •
Mikhail Gorbachev (1988) •
Peter Carey ,
José Donoso ,
Northrop Frye ,
Jorge Semprún ,
Wole Soyinka ,
Lu Tongliu (1990) •
Fernanda Pivano (1992) •
Associazione Scrittori Cinesi (1993) •
Dong Baoucum ,
Fan Boaci ,
Wang Huanbao ,
Shi Peide ,
Chen Yuanbin (1995) •
Xu Huainzhong ,
Xiao Xue ,
Yu Yougqnan ,
Qin Weinjung (1996) •
Khushwant Singh (1997) •
Javier Marías (1998) •
Francesco Burdin (2001) •
Luciano Erba (2002) •
Isabella Quarantotti De Filippo (2003) •
Marina Rullo (2006) •
Andrea Ceccherini (2007) •
Enrique Vila-Matas (2009) •
Francesco Forgione (2010)
First work:
Valerio Magrelli (1980) •
Ferruccio Benzoni , Stefano Simoncelli,
Walter Valeri ,
Laura Mancinelli (1981) •
Jolanda Insana (1982) •
Daniele Del Giudice (1983) •
Aldo Busi (1984) •
Elisabetta Rasy ,
Dario Villa (1985) •
Marco Lodoli ,
Angelo Mainardi (1986) •
Marco Ceriani ,
Giovanni Giudice (1987) •
Edoardo Albinati ,
Silvana La Spina (1988) •
Andrea Canobbio ,
Romana Petri (1990) •
Anna Cascella (1991) •
Marco Caporali ,
Nelida Milani (1992) •
Silvana Grasso ,
Giulio Mozzi (1993) •
Ernesto Franco (1994) •
Roberto Deidier (1995) •
Giuseppe Quatriglio ,
Tiziano Scarpa (1996) •
Fabrizio Rondolino (1997) •
Alba Donati (1998) •
Paolo Febbraro (1999) •
Evelina Santangelo (2000) •
Giuseppe Lupo (2001) •
Giovanni Bergamini ,
Simona Corso (2003) •
Adriano Lo Monaco (2004) •
Piercarlo Rizzi (2005) •
Francesco Fontana (2006) •
Paolo Fallai (2007) •
Luca Giachi (2008) •
Carlo Carabba (2009) •
Gabriele Pedullà (2010)
Italian Author:
Alberto Moravia (1982) •
Vittorio Sereni alla memoria (1983) •
Italo Calvino (1984) •
Mario Luzi (1985) •
Paolo Volponi (1986) •
Luigi Malerba (1987) •
Oreste del Buono (1988) •
Giovanni Macchia (1989) •
Gianni Celati ,
Emilio Villa (1990) •
Andrea Zanzotto (1991) •
Ottiero Ottieri (1992) •
Attilio Bertolucci (1993) •
Luigi Meneghello (1994) •
Fernando Bandini ,
Michele Perriera (1995) •
Nico Orengo (1996) •
Giuseppe Bonaviri ,
Giovanni Raboni (1997) •
Carlo Ginzburg (1998) •
Alessandro Parronchi (1999) •
Elio Bartolini (2000) •
Roberto Alajmo (2001) •
Andrea Camilleri (2002) •
Andrea Carraro , Antonio Franchini,
Giorgio Pressburger (2003) •
Maurizio Bettini ,
Giorgio Montefoschi ,
Nelo Risi (2004) •
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Raffaele Nigro ,
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Maurizio Cucchi ,
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Giuseppe Conte (2005) •
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Paolo Di Stefano ,
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Giulio Angioni (2006) •
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Mario Fortunato ,
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Toni Maraini ,
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Andrea Di Consoli (2007) •
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Andrea Bajani ,
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Antonio Scurati ,
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Flavio Soriga (2008) •
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Mario Desiati ,
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Osvaldo Guerrieri ,
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Gregorio Scalise (2009) •
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Lorenzo Pavolini ,
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Roberto Cazzola ,
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Milo De Angelis ,
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Igiaba Scego (2011) •
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Davide Orecchio (2012) •
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Andrea Canobbio ,
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Walter Siti (2013) •
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Irene Chias ,
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Giorgio Falco ,
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Francesco Pecoraro (2014) •
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Nicola Lagioia ,
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Letizia Muratori ,
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Marco Missiroli (2015) •
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Romana Petri (2016) •
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Alessandra Sarchi (2017)
Mondello for Multiculturality Award:
Kim Thúy (2011)
"Targa Archimede", Premio all'Intelligenza d'Impresa:
Enzo Sellerio (2011)
Special Award 40 Years of Mondello:
Gipi (2014)
International National Other