Kobane Calling

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 Internazionale (an Italian weekly).

Kobane Calling
Created byZerocalcare
Original languageItalian
Genre
Publication date2015
Creative team
Writer(s)Zerocalcare

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

Plot

In the first part of the comic, Zerocalcare recounts the reasons that pushed him to go to the small town of Mehser, on the Turkish-Syrian border, a short distance from the besieged city of Kobanî, which is the symbol of the independence of the Rojava autonomous region, 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, Trans. Jamie Richards, St. Louis, MO: The Lion Forge, 2017, pp. 288, ISBN 1941302491.
  • Zerocalcare, Kobane Calling, Internazionale, n. 1085 anno XXII, Internazionale srl, 16 gennaio 2015, pp. 33–74, ISSN 1122-2832.
  • 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. Zerocalcare
  3. 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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