Kobane Calling

Kobane Calling
Created by Zerocalcare
Original language Italian
Genre
Publication date 2015
Creative team
Writer(s) Zerocalcare
Creator(s) Zerocalcare

Kobane Calling is a comic illustrated book written and designed by the Italian author Zerocalcare. Part of the work was published in January 2015 on the International weekly.

The work is a graphical report of the journey that the author has took to the Syrian Kurdistan and Turkey-Syria border, a few kilometers far from the besieged city of Kobanê, among the Kurdish leftist defenders of democratic autonomous region of Rojava, where people has been fighting against the forces of the Islamic State.[1]

Plot

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In the first part of the comic, Zerocalcare tells the reasons that pushed him on to go to the small town of Mehser, on the Turkish-Syrian border, a short distance from the besieged city of Kobanê, which is the desirable symbol of the independence of the Rojava autonomous region, a mainly Kurdish populated, and has fought against the forces of the Islamic State.[2][3][4]

The illustrator humorously recounts the results of the announcement made to his parents of his departure towards Kobanê with a group of Roman volunteers to support the Kurdish resistance and objectively narrate the conflict with first-hand testimonies. The arrival and permanence are then dashed in the cartoons with humor and digressions typical of the Zerocalcare style but with a critical spirit towards the contradictions with which the interventions are conducted internationally and a very strong emotional involvement towards the known people and volunteers.[2][3]

Editions

  • Zerocalcare, Kobane Calling, Internazionale, n. 1085 anno XXII, Internazionale srl, 16 gennaio 2015, pp. 33-74, ISBN 9771122283008.
  • Zerocalcare, Kobane Calling, Milano, Bao Publishing, 12 aprile 2016, pp. 272, ISBN 978-88-6543-618-9.

Note

  1. ↑ "Con il cuore a Kobane - Sommario n. 1085". 16–22 June 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 Zerocalcare internazionale
  3. 1 2 Gennaro Costanzo (15 June 2015). "Kobane Calling (Internazionale 1085)". Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  4. ↑ Loris Cantarelli (19 June 2015). "Kobane Calling". Retrieved 20 June 2015.


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