His graphic novel '' Appunti per una Storia di Guerra '' ( '' Notes pour une histoire de guerre , Notes for a War Story '' ) , published by Coconino Press , appeared in France and was published in the United States by First Second Books . '' Notes for a War Story '' 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 did n’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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