Gipi

Gianni Pacinotti
Gianni Pacinotti
Born	December 12, 1963 (age 57); Pisa
Nationality	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

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 , , , 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 (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. ISBN 8876185232

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)
(2012)
Il ragazzo più felice del mondo (2018)
[it] (dir. Claudio Cupellini, 2021)

References[]

^ Inkpot Award
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d Comic creator: Gipi (Gianni Pacinotti)
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c First Second - Creators - Gipi Archived 2008-05-17 at the Wayback Machine
^ Words Without Borders
^ Fantagraphics Books - Gipi
^ "Venezia 68: L'ultimo terrenstre - Gian Alfonso Pacinotti (Gipi)". labiennale.org. Venice Biennale. Archived from the original on 2011-08-26. Retrieved 2011-08-26.
^ "Bruti on BoardGameGeek". Retrieved 2016-04-08.

External links[]

[1] Inkpot Award

[lambiek.net-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d Comic creator: Gipi (Gianni Pacinotti)

[First_Second_-_Creators_-_Gipi-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c First Second - Creators - Gipi Archived 2008-05-17 at the Wayback Machine

[4] Words Without Borders

[5] Fantagraphics Books - Gipi

[venice-6] "Venezia 68: L'ultimo terrenstre - Gian Alfonso Pacinotti (Gipi)". labiennale.org. Venice Biennale. Archived from the original on 2011-08-26. Retrieved 2011-08-26.

[bruti-7] "Bruti on BoardGameGeek". Retrieved 2016-04-08.

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Single Prize for Literature: (1975) • Achille Campanile (1976) • Günter Grass (1977)
Special Jury Prize: (1975) • Stefano D'Arrigo (1977) • (1978) • Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1979) • Pietro Consagra (1980) • Ignazio Buttitta, (1983) • Leonardo Sciascia (1985) • (1987) • (1988) • Peter Carey, José Donoso, Northrop Frye, Jorge Semprún, Wole Soyinka, (1990) • Fernanda Pivano (1992) • (1993) • , , , , (1995) • , , , (1996) • Khushwant Singh (1997) • Javier Marías (1998) • (2001) • Luciano Erba (2002) • (2003) • (2006) • (2007) • Enrique Vila-Matas (2009) • (2010)
First narrative work: (1978) • Fausta Garavini (1979)
First poetic work: (1978) • (1979)
Prize for foreign literature: Milan Kundera (1978) • N. Scott Momaday (1979) • Juan Carlos Onetti (1980) • Tadeusz Konwicki (1981)
Prize for foreign poetry: (1978) • Joseph Brodsky (1979) • Juan Gelman (1980) • Gyula Illyés (1981)
First work: Valerio Magrelli (1980) • , Stefano Simoncelli, , Laura Mancinelli (1981) • Jolanda Insana (1982) • Daniele Del Giudice (1983) • Aldo Busi (1984) • , (1985) • , (1986) • , (1987) • Edoardo Albinati, (1988) • Andrea Canobbio, Romana Petri (1990) • (1991) • , Nelida Milani (1992) • Silvana Grasso, (1993) • (1994) • (1995) • , Tiziano Scarpa (1996) • (1997) • (1998) • (1999) • (2000) • (2001) • , (2003) • (2004) • (2005) • (2006) • (2007) • (2008) • (2009) • (2010)
Foreign author: Alain Robbe-Grillet (1982) • Thomas Bernhard (1983) • Adolfo Bioy Casares (1984) • Bernard Malamud (1985) • Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1986) • Doris Lessing (1987) • V. S. Naipaul (1988) • Octavio Paz (1989) • Christa Wolf (1990) • Kurt Vonnegut (1991) • Bohumil Hrabal (1992) • Seamus Heaney (1993) • J. M. Coetzee (1994) • (1995) • David Grossman (1996) • Philippe Jaccottet (1998) • Don DeLillo (1999) • Aleksandar Tišma (2000) • Nuruddin Farah (2001) • Per Olov Enquist (2002) • Adunis (2003) • Les Murray (2004) • Magda Szabó (2005) • Uwe Timm (2006) • Bapsi Sidhwa (2007) • (2009) • Edmund White (2010) • Javier Cercas (2011) • Elizabeth Strout (2012) • Péter Esterházy (2013) • Joe R. Lansdale (2014) • Emmanuel Carrère (2015) • Marilynne Robinson (2016) • Cees Nooteboom (2017)
Italian Author: Alberto Moravia (1982) • Vittorio Sereni alla memoria (1983) • Italo Calvino (1984) • Mario Luzi (1985) • Paolo Volponi (1986) • Luigi Malerba (1987) • (1988) • Giovanni Macchia (1989) • Gianni Celati, Emilio Villa (1990) • Andrea Zanzotto (1991) • Ottiero Ottieri (1992) • Attilio Bertolucci (1993) • Luigi Meneghello (1994) • , (1995) • (1996) • , Giovanni Raboni (1997) • Carlo Ginzburg (1998) • Alessandro Parronchi (1999) • Elio Bartolini (2000) • (2001) • Andrea Camilleri (2002) • , Antonio Franchini, Giorgio Pressburger (2003) • Maurizio Bettini, , Nelo Risi (2004) • pr. , sec. , ter. Giuseppe Conte (2005) • pr. , sec. Giulio Angioni (2006) • pr. Mario Fortunato, sec. , ter. (2007) • pr. Andrea Bajani, sec. Antonio Scurati, ter. Flavio Soriga (2008) • pr. , sec. , ter. Gregorio Scalise (2009) • pr. , sec. , ter. (2010) • pr. , sec. , ter. Igiaba Scego (2011) • pr. Edoardo Albinati, sec. , ter. (2012) • pr. Andrea Canobbio, sec. Valerio Magrelli, ter. (2013) • pr. , sec. , ter. (2014) • pr. Nicola Lagioia, sec. , ter. (2015) • pr. Marcello Fois, sec. , ter. Romana Petri (2016) • pr. Stefano Massini, sec. , ter. (2017)
"Five Continents" Award: Kōbō Abe, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Germaine Greer, Wilson Harris, José Saramago (1992) • Kenzaburō Ōe (1993) • Stephen Spender (1994) • Thomas Keneally, Alberto Arbasino (1996) • Margaret Atwood, André Brink, David Malouf, Romesh Gunesekera, Christoph Ransmayr (1997)
"Palermo bridge for Europe" Award: Dacia Maraini (1999), Premio Palermo ponte per il Mediterraneo Alberto Arbasino (2000)
"Ignazio Buttitta" Award: (2003) • (2005) • (2006) • (2007)
Supermondello Tiziano Scarpa (2009) • Michela Murgia (2010) • (2011) • (2012) • Valerio Magrelli (2013) • (2014) • (2015) • Romana Petri (2016) • Stefano Massini (2017)
Special award of the President: Ibrahim al-Koni (2009) • (2010) • (2011)
Poetry prize: (2010)
Translation Award: (2010)
Identity and dialectal literatures award: e Marco Paolini (2010)
Essays Prize: (2010)
Mondello for Multiculturality Award: Kim Thúy (2011)
Mondello Youths Award: Claudia Durastanti (2011) • Edoardo Albinati (2012) • (2017)
"Targa Archimede", Premio all'Intelligenza d'Impresa: Enzo Sellerio (2011)
Prize for Literary Criticism: (2012) • Maurizio Bettini (2013) • (2014) • (2015) • Serena Vitale (2016) • (2017)
Award for best motivation: (2012)
Special award for travel literature: (2013)
Special Award 40 Years of Mondello: Gipi (2014)

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Gianni Pacinotti

Born	(1963-12-12) December 12, 1963 (age 57) Pisa
Nationality	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]