Notes for a War Story #[nn]

([August] 2007)

Notes for a War Story (Table of Contents)

comic story / 109 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gianni Pacinotti [as Gipi]

Pencils:

Gianni Pacinotti [as Gipi] (watercolor art)

Inks:

Gianni Pacinotti [as Gipi] (watercolor art)

Colors:

Gianni Pacinotti [as Gipi] (watercolor art)

Letters:

Danica Novgorodoff (design)

Content Information

Genre:

Drama

Characters:

Giuliano; Christian "Little Killer"; Stefano; Felix

Synopsis:

Three young men eke out a living in a countryside ravished by civil war, but petty crimes lead to bigger jobs for a local thug. Their adventure takes them through one of the bombed scared cities and into the heart of the conflict itself.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Appunti per una storia di guerra (Coconino Press, 2004 series) #[nn] ([January?] 2004)

Indexer Notes

Winner of the 2005 Goscinny Prize for Best Script
Best Book of the Year at the Angouleme Comics Festival in 2006

Of Boys and Guns: Reflections on Gipi's Notes for a War Story (Table of Contents)

text article / 11 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Alexis Siegel

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Synopsis:

Author Alexis Siegel’s essay relates the characters and events of Gipi’s Notes for a War Story to the collateral damage witnessed in the Balkans during the 1990s and other recent civil wars. It specifically focuses on the impact that the subsequent lawlessness has had on young men.