Notes For A War Story

    (:01 First Second, 2007)
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From the Publisher:

The war arrived in our village on the 18th of January. Obviously there were other wars going on, but they didn’t have anything to do with us. There were wars for blacks. Wars for Arabs. Wars for Slavs. Our war started on the 18th of January, and in a few days, everything had changed.

So recounts Giuliano, a loner among outsiders, one of three young drifters caught up in the whirlwind of a nameless war in a nameless Balkan country. The three of them are like passing shadows: they squat in abandoned houses, dodge the occasional bomb, and steal car parts for money. Meeting Felix—a powerful, fast-talking thug—changes everything. They soon escalate from petty crime to working on behalf of a mafia-style militia, bullying in the name of Felix and eventually killing in the name of Felix. As Giuliano comes to realize, they don’t even know what they’re fighting for.

Notes for a War Story is an astonishing urban fable of life in a lawless, war-torn nation, heightened by the uncanny artwork of Italy’s majestic graphic novel author.
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