{{short description|Comic book by Zerocalcare}} {{Infobox comics meta series |image = |imagesize = <!-- default 250 --> |caption = |alt = |anthology = |graphicnovel = |titles = |lang = It |Adventure = y |publisher = |startmo = <!-- optional in lieu of date--> |startyr = 2015 |endmo = <!-- optional in lieu of date--> |endyr = |main_char_team = |creators = Zerocalcare |writers = Zerocalcare |artists = |colorists = |nonUS = y |altcat = |alttop = y |sort = Kobane Calling }}
'''''Kobane Calling''''', titled ''Kobane Calling: Greetings from Northern Syria'' in the English edition, is a comic illustrated book written and designed by the Italian author Zerocalcare. Part of the work was published in January 2015 on '' Internazionale'', an Italian weekly.
The work is a graphic reportage of the journey that Zerocalcare 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 its people have been fighting against the forces of the Islamic State.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.internazionale.it/sommario/1085|title=Con il cuore a Kobane - Sommario n. 1085|date=16–22 June 2015|access-date=20 June 2015}}</ref>
==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.<ref name=internazionale>{{cite magazine |author=Zerocalcare |title=Kobane Calling |magazine=Internazionale |issue=1085 |date=16 January 2015 |pages=33-74}}</ref><ref name=comics>{{cite web|url=http://www.comicus.it/index.php/mainmenu-rece/item/58737-kobane-calling/58737-kobane-calling |title=Kobane Calling (Internazionale 1085) |author=Gennaro Costanzo |date=15 June 2015 |access-date= 20 June 2015}}</ref><ref name=inchiesta>{{cite web|url=http://www.linkiesta.it/blogs/fumo-di-china/kobane-calling |title=Kobane Calling |author=Loris Cantarelli |date=19 June 2015|access-date=20 June 2015}}</ref>
The illustrator humorously recounts the results of the announcement made to his parents of his departure towards Kobanî, 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.<ref name=internazionale /><ref name=comics/>
==Adaptations==
===Stage play=== On November 2, 2018, ''Kobane Calling On Stage'', the first ever theatrical adaptation of the original graphic novel Kobane Calling, debuted at the Teatro del Giglio in Lucca, Italy, during the Lucca Comics & Games convention. The play is directed by Nicola Zavagli, while Zerocalcare is portrayed by the actor Lorenzo Parrotto.<ref>{{Cite news|title='Kobane Calling' di Zerocalcare ora è uno spettacolo 'On Stage': "Un dialogo tra teatro e fumetto"|work=laRepubblica.it|url=https://www.repubblica.it/robinson/2018/10/26/news/_kobane_calling_di_zerocalcare_diventa_on_stage_uno_spettacolo_teatrale_per_inaugurare_lucca_comics-210048725/}}</ref> The show was on tour in Italy during the 2019–2020 season,<ref>{{Cite news|date=16 November 2019|title=Kobane calling on stage: Zerocalcare in prima nazionale a Grosseto|work=Maremma News|url=https://www.maremmanews.it/index.php/attualita/70781-kobane-calling-on-stage-zerocalcare-in-prima-nazionale-a-grosseto|access-date=18 November 2019|archive-date=20 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211120155922/https://www.maremmanews.it/index.php/attualita/70781-kobane-calling-on-stage-zerocalcare-in-prima-nazionale-a-grosseto|url-status=dead}}</ref> and has been resumed during the 2022–2023 season, starting from the Teatro Bellini in Naples in May 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kobane calling on stage |url=http://www.teatrobellini.it/spettacoli/467/kobane-calling-on-stage |access-date=22 February 2022 |website=Teatro Bellini |language=It |archive-date=31 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331135656/http://teatrobellini.it/spettacoli/467/kobane-calling-on-stage |url-status=dead }}</ref>
===Audiobook=== An audiobook edition in Italian was released in October 2021, exclusively on Storytel.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Kobane Calling |publisher=Storyside |isbn=978-91-7989-707-9 |publication-date=15 October 2021 |language=it |author-mask=Zerocalcare}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2 October 2021 |title=7 novità da ascoltare a ottobre |work=Il Post |url=https://www.ilpost.it/2021/10/02/audiolibri-podcast-storytel-audible-ottobre/ |access-date=7 January 2022}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.zerocalcare.it/2015/01/16/kobane-calling/ Kobane Calling on the official Zerocalcare website, on ''zerocalcare.it''.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211117120835/http://www.zerocalcare.it/2015/01/16/kobane-calling/ |date=2021-11-17 }}
Category:Humor comics Category:Italian comics Category:2015 comics debuts Category:One-shot comic titles Category:Works about the Syrian civil war Category:Zerocalcare Category:Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria