Aufzeichnungen für eine Kriegsgeschichte #[nn]

Gipi's haunting watercolor cover sets the tone immediately: three figures — a young man in a red jacket closest to the viewer, a second figure in the middle distance, and a child further back — stand on a desolate road beneath a sky choked with dark smoke and distant fires. Published by avant-verlag in 2006, this German-language edition of *Aufzeichnungen für eine Kriegsgeschichte* showcases Gipi's distinctively muted, earthy palette, where the warmth of that red jacket against the bleak landscape feels quietly defiant. With Gipi serving as writer, artist, inker, and colorist — and Giovanni Peduto co-writing — this is a deeply personal creative vision rendered with painterly intimacy.