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{{Short description|Italian cartoonist, filmmaker, and author (pen name of Gianni Pacinotti)}}
{{Infobox comics creator
| name          = Gianni Pacinotti
| image         = Gipi - Internazionale a Ferrara 2007.jpg
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| birth_date    = {{birth date and age|1963|12|12}}
| birth_place   = Pisa
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| nationality   = Italian
| area          = Comics artist, cartoonist, filmmaker, author
| alias         = Gipi
| notable works =
| awards        = {{unbulleted list | Goscinny Prize (2005) | [[Max & Moritz Prize]] (2005) | [[Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Best Album]] (2006) | [[Inkpot Award]] (2008)<ref>[https://www.comic-con.org/awards/inkpot Inkpot Award]</ref> | [[U Giancu's Prize]] (2014) }}
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'''Gia Alfonso 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.<ref name="lambiek.net">[http://lambiek.net/artists/g/gipi.htm Comic creator: Gipi (Gianni Pacinotti)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
He began illustrating stories and comics in 1992, and his work appeared in ''[[Cuore (newspaper)|Cuore]]'', ''[[Blue (periodical)|Blue]]'', ''[[Il Clandestino]]'', ''[[Boxer (magazine)|Boxer]]'', ''[[Il Manifesto]]'' and ''[[Lo Straniero]]''.<ref name="lambiek.net"/>  His work also appears in ''[[La Repubblica]]''.<ref name="First Second - Creators - Gipi">[http://www.firstsecondbooks.com/gipi.html First Second – Creators – Gipi<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517073337/http://www.firstsecondbooks.com/gipi.html |date=2008-05-17 }}</ref>
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]].<ref name="First Second - Creators - Gipi"/> It won the [[Angoulême International Comics Festival René Goscinny award|2005 Goscinny Prize]] for Best Script and was proclaimed [[Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Best Album|Best Book]] at [[Angoulême International Comics Festival|Angoulême]] in 2006.<ref name="First Second - Creators - Gipi"/> ''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".<ref>[http://wordswithoutborders.org/article/taken-from-life-an-interview-with-gipi/ Words Without Borders<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
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]].<ref name="lambiek.net"/> ''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.<ref>[http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=391&Itemid=62&vmcchk=1&Itemid=62 Fantagraphics Books – Gipi<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
==Other work==
In 2000, he founded Santa Maria Video.  Santa Maria is a studio through which he creates video and animation shorts.<ref name="lambiek.net"/> His debut as a film director, ''[[The Last Earthling]]'', premiered at the [[68th Venice International Film Festival]].<ref name=venice>{{Cite web|url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/lineup/off-sel/venezia68/ultimo-terrestre.html|title=Venezia 68: L'ultimo terrenstre - Gian Alfonso Pacinotti (Gipi)|work=labiennale.org|publisher=[[Venice Biennale]]|access-date=2011-08-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318094248/http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/lineup/off-sel/venezia68/ultimo-terrestre.html|archive-date=2012-03-18|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 2015, he successfully crowdfunded and launched ''Bruti'',<ref name=bruti>{{Cite web|url=https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/178835/bruti|title=Bruti on BoardGameGeek|access-date=2016-04-08}}</ref> 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
*{{Cite book |title=Garage Band |publisher=[[First Second Books]] |year=2005 |location=New York}}
*''S'' (in Italian)''.'' Bologna: Coconino Press. 2006
*{{Cite book |title=Notes for a War Story |publisher=First Second Books |year=2007 |location=New York |orig-date=2004}}
*{{Cite book |title=Land of the Sons |publisher=[[Fantagraphics Books]] |year=2018 |isbn=9781683960775 |location=Seattle |orig-date=2016}}
*''Momenti straordinari con applausi finti'' (in Italian). Bologna: Coconino Press. 2019. {{ISBN|8876185232}}
*{{Cite book |title=One Story |publisher=Fantagraphics Books |year=2020 |location=Seattle |orig-date=2008}}
*{{Cite book |title=MBDL - My Badly Drawn Life |publisher=Fantagraphics Books |year=2022 |isbn=9781683965213 |location=Seattle |orig-date=2008}}
===Anthologies===
*{{Cite book |title=The Innocents. Wish You Were Here |publisher=Fantagraphics Books |year=2005 |isbn=9781560977575 |volume=1 |location=Seattle}}
*{{Cite book |title=They Found the Car. Wish You Were Here |publisher=Fantagraphic Books |year=2006 |isbn=9781560978015 |volume=2 |location=Seattle}}
*''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 ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Year
!Title
!Director
!Screenwriter
!Actor
!Adaptation
!Notes
|-
|2011
|''[[The Last Man on Earth (2011 film)|The Last Man on Earth]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
||
|{{yes}}
|Adapted from Giacomo Monti's comic ''Nessuno mi farà del male''
|-
|2012
|''{{ill|Smettere di fumare fumando|it|3=Smettere di fumare fumando}}''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
||
|Also producer
|-
|2018
|''[[Il ragazzo più felice del mondo]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
||
|
|-
|2021
|''{{ill|La terra dei figli|it|3=La terra dei figli (film)|lt=La terra dei figli}}''
|
|
||
|{{yes}}
|Adapted from Gipi's comic ''{{ill|Land of the Sons|it|3=La terra dei figli|lt=}}''
|-
|2023
|''Severodonetsk''
|{{yes}}
|
|
|
|Music video from [[Manuel Agnelli]]'s song of the same name
|}
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
{{commons category|Gianni Pacinotti}}
*[http://giannigipi.blogspot.com/ Gipi’s website]
*[http://wordswithoutborders.org/article/taken-from-life-an-interview-with-gipi/ Words Without Borders:  “Taken from Life: An Interview with Gipi”]
{{Mondello Prize}}
{{Authority control}}
[[Category:Italian comics writers]]
[[Category:Italian comics artists]]
[[Category:People from Pisa]]
[[Category:1963 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Inkpot Award winners]]
[[Category:Pseudonymous artists]]