Gia Alfonso Pacinotti, better known by the pseudonym of Gipi, is an Italian cartoonist, filmmaker, and author.

Born in Pisa in 1963, he began his career illustrating for the publishing and advertising industries.

[4] Gipi has created Gli innocenti (The Innocents) for the Ignatz Series and in 2006 this work earned him an Eisner Award nomination and a Max & Moritz Prize.

[2] The Innocents is about a reformed thug who takes his young nephew down to the seaside, where they visit an old friend who has just been released out of prison for a crime he did not commit.

[6] In 2015, he successfully crowdfunded and launched Bruti,[7] a card game about melee combats between warriors and enchanters set in a dark fantasy with a medieval feel.