He began a collaboration with Coconino
Press, a Bologna-based publishing house, in 2002 publishing the
short story ‘The five turns’ in volume III of the
magazine Black and then ‘The Boxer’ and ‘The
faces in the water’ in the fifth and sixth volume respectively.
His first monographic work produced by the same publishing house was
a collection of stories entitled Night
Exterior. The volume, published in 2003, contained five short stories
(amongst which are the already quoted The five turns and The
faces in the water).
Night Exterior was awarded the Micheluzzi Prize for the Best Drawing
at the Comicon Festival in Naples and the Romics Grand Prize in 2004.
Later that year he created his first full-length graphic novel for Coconino
Press and Actes
Sud entitled Notes
for a war story. This work is awarded the Margouillat Prize for
Best Album at the 2005 Saint-Denis de la Réunion Comics Festival
and is listed by the French review Lire as one of the 20 best
books appeared in 2005. A year later it was to win the Prize for Best
Book of the Italian School at the Romics Festival, Best Album
Prize at the prestigious Comics Festival of Angoulême and the
Goscinny Prize in France.
In May 2005, the novel The
Innocents is included in the Ignatz series of Coconino
Press and subsequently awarded the Max und Moritz Prize in 2006 for
the Best Foreign Book at the Erlangen Comics Festival in Germany and
receives a nomination at the Eisner Awards.
In December 2005 he created Garage
band, a graphic novel published in France by Gallimard,
again winning the Micheluzzi Prize for the Best Drawing at the Comicon
Festival.
Gipi collects the Special Jury Prize for ‘unique author’
at the Lucca Festival and the Special Jury Prize at the Narrative Genres
Festival in Fiesole a year later.
They
found the car is published in February 2006 within the second volume
of the “Wish You Were Here”series.
The short story ‘The two mushrooms’ appears later
in spring in the review Canicola.
All of the author’s artwork has been translated and published
in various European languages and in the United States of America. Other
translations are currently under way.
During most of his career Gipi couples the creation of novels with that
of illustrations for the publishing industry and the national press.
At present Gipi has an exclusive collaboration with the daily newspaper
La Repubblica and also collaborates with the review Internazionale
with a weekly satirical strip. His next work, which will appear at the
end of 2006, is a 120 page volume in full colour entitled S.
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