Gian Alfonso Pacinotti

Gian Alfonso Pacinotti

Known for: Directing
Biography: 1963-12-12 (60 years old)

Biography

Gianni Pacinotti, better known by the pseudonym of Gipi, is an Italian cartoonist, filmmaker, and author. Born in Pisa in 1963, he began his career illustrating for the publishing and advertising industries.He began illustrating stories and comics in 1992, and his work appeared in Cuore, Blue, Il Clandestino, Boxer, Il Manifesto and Lo Straniero. His work also appears in La Repubblica.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. It won the 2005 Goscinny Prize for Best Script and was proclaimed Best Book at Angoulême 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 and in 2006 this work earned him an Eisner Award nomination and a Max & Moritz Prize. 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.

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Known For
Directing

Gender
Male

Birthday
1963-12-12 (60 years old)

Birth Name
Gianni Pacinotti

Birth Place
Pisa, Italy

Citizenships
Italy

Also Known As
Gipi

Awards
prix Ouest-France-Quai des Bulles, Best foreign work published in Spain, Inkpot Award

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