Two pre-adolescent brothers scavenge a post-apocalyptic landscape for anything that might help each other and their father exist for one more day. Although their survival hangs in the balance, the boys are obsessed with only one thing―the diary their father keeps. They’ve never been taught to read or write, but they have a hunch that the scribbles might answer their questions. Land of the Sons is Gipi’s most artistically accomplished work to date. Review “Gipi develops a naturalism and human quality often missing from SF survival fantasies. ... the art reveals a credible vast alternative landscape of mud, water, reedy islands, makeshift boats, and strange and hostile patched-together colonies. It’s a strikingly envisioned imaginary world.” - Publishers Weekly “Presenting itself in an anarchic parade of anger, impulse, and violence, Land of the Sons moves with a rare energy. … Gipi draws like a maniac. He composes each figure as an accumulation of circles spiraling endlessly on top of one another until they become recognizable―as a shape, as texture, as light. The whole thing is an illustrative tour de force.” - The A.V. Club About the Author Gipi (Gianni Pacinotti) is an Italian cartoonist whose Notes for a War Story won “Best Book” at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. He also teaches and has directed a film, 2011’s The Last Man on Earth.
