#peppone

They were how I found you, and I haven't thought about them in too long <3<3<3

You know what? Same here! I went back to my WIP chapter of Between the Mountains and the Plains for this ask and boy, do I wish I knew how to continue it. In the meantime, you didn't specify anything in your ask, so I'm just gonna let my mouth run. Or, y'know. Fingers.

I found something in my Don Camillo notes file: "WW2, German occupation, in the mountains. Peppone and a pocket protector." That's literally all there is. I don't remember whether I was going somewhere specific with this or just jotting down a random idea. But okay, let's work with that!

First off, "pocket protector" is that trope when a character is shot, only the bullet is stopped (at least partly) by an object the character has in their chest pocket. Of course the likely candidate for this is a book, but metallic hip flasks can also work! But I do want it to be a book, because picture this -

Since everyone knows this legendary pics, I decided that I need to draw some characters like this:

I’m in the process of posting my WW2 Don Camillo stories on FFnet, and since FFnet has “cover pictures” I decided to make some for the fics mostly in the style of Giovannino Guareschi’s lovely little illustrations from the books (like I’d done with The Trumpet of Contention :o)

If anyone’s curious, from #1 to #5, here are the fics in question on AO3:

September (The Nazis didn’t spare sleepy little villages when they invaded Northern Italy. Hard times means hard decisions have to be made.)

The Clandestine Chaplain (In which Don Camillo visits some of his parishioners in exile and comes to a few startling conclusions.)

Tidings of Comfort and Joy (With December come bad news. Hope is not always found at the bottom of a box, but some people may find it there anyway.)

Giosuè (Whoever saves one life...)

Vigil (One night can last a long time when a man’s life hangs in the balance.)

omg thank you for this request and the opportunity to draw them !!

i grew up with genosse don camillo (or originally Mondo piccolo – il compagno Don Camillo) and read that book SO MANY times (my parents never bought me any other don camillo books because we never had money and even buying a book was a big investment X'D) - i had that one gifted to me by my grandpa

and i LOVE the little illustrations in it

so that's how i always pictured don camillo and peppone and it would influence how i draw them^^