New Releases by Guy Delisle

Sono poche le immagini che hanno cambiato il corso della storia. Tra queste, ci sono le rivoluzionarie foto di Eadweard Muybridge: un''iconica sequenza di scatti del 1877 grazie alla quale, per la prima volta, è stato possibile esaminare passo dopo passo l''andatura di un cavallo al galoppo. Oltre a rivelarci i segreti del movimento, Muybridge ha contribuito alla nascita del cinema e gettato le basi per altre evoluzioni tecniche come la fotografia panoramica. Ma in questo genio della fotografia convivevano più personalità, legate ad altrettante fasi della sua vita: figlio dell''Inghilterra della rivoluzione industriale, libraio a San Francisco, fotografo naturalista, grande viaggiatore, vittima di un grave trauma cranico, stimato conferenziere e assassino a sangue freddo. In questo libro, Delisle si addentra nel mistero di un uomo brillante e instabile, creando una biografia sorprendente e controversa. *********************** Questo eBook è ottimizzato per la fruizione su tablet; se ne sconsiglia pertanto la lettura sui dispositivi eReader.

Universally beloved cartoonist Guy Delisle showcases a career-spanning collection of his work with a sly sense of humor and warm characterization. Before Delisle became an international superstar with his globe-hopping travelogues, he was an animator experimenting with the comics form. Always aware of the elasticity of the human form and honing his keen observer’s eye, young Delisle created hilarious set pieces. World Record Holders ranges from wistful childhood nostalgia to chagrined post-fame encounters, touching on formally ambitious visual puns and gut-busting what-ifs. Delisle again and again shows how life is both exhilarating and embarrassing. Delisle visits an exhibition of his work in another country and is confronted by an angry spouse who blames him for destroying her marriage. A juvenile game of Bows and Arrows turns menacing as arrows shot straight up in the air turn into barely visible missiles of death. A coded message from space creates different reactions from different people—debates, dance festivals, gallery shows. Translated by Helge Dascher.

For three summers beginning when he was 16, cartoonist Guy Delisle worked at a pulp and paper factory in Quebec City. Factory Summers chronicles the daily rhythms of life in the mill, and the twelve hour shifts he spent in a hot, noisy building filled with arcane machinery. Delisle takes his noted outsider perspective and applies it domestically, this time as a boy amongst men through the universal rite of passage of the summer job. Even as a teenager, Delisle’s keen eye for hypocrisy highlights the tensions of class and the rampant sexism an all-male workplace permits. Guy works the floor doing physically strenuous tasks. He is one of the few young people on site, and furthermore gets the job through his father’s connections, a fact which rightfully earns him disdain from the lifers. Guy’s dad spends his whole career in the white collar offices, working 9 to 5 instead of the rigorous 12-hour shifts of the unionized labor. Guy and his dad aren’t close, and Factory Summers leaves Delisle reconciling whether the job led to his dad’s aloofness and unhappiness. On his days off, Guy finds refuge in art, a world far beyond the factory floor. Delisle shows himself rediscovering comics at the public library, and preparing for animation school–only to be told on the first day, “There are no jobs in animation.” Eager to pursue a job he enjoys, Guy throws caution to the wind. Translated by Helge Dascher and Rob Aspinall

"From the author of Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea and Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China, is Burma Chronicles, an informative look at a country that uses concealment and isolation as social control. It is drawn with Guy Delisle''s minimal line while interspersed with wordless vignettes and moments of his distinctive slapstick humor. Burma Chronicles has been translated from the French by Helge Dascher. Dascher has been translating graphic novels from French and German to English for over twenty years. A contributor to Drawn & Quarterly since the early days, her translations include acclaimed titles such as the Aya series by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie, Hostage by Guy Delisle, and Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët. With a background in art history and history, she also translates books and exhibitions for museums in North America and Europe. She lives in Montreal."

Meditations on fatherhood from the author of Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City With A User’s Guide to Neglectful Parenting, the trademark dry humor that pervades Guy Delisle’s landmark and praised graphic travelogues takes center stage. Quick, light vignettes play on the worries and cares any young parent might have, and offer wry solutions to the petty frustrations of being a dad who works from home. Readers familiar with Delisle’s stranger-in-a-strange-land technique for storytelling (employed in Jerusalem, Pyongyang, Burma Chronicles, and Shenzhen) will recognize the titular parent in this book; Delisle’s travelogues were simultaneously portraits of complex places and times, and portraits of a stay-at-home dad’s ever-changing relationship with his children while his wife is out working for Doctors Without Borders. The relationship between young child and all-too-irony-aware parent is beautifully done here, and Delisle’s loose flowing style has been set free, creating a wonderful sense of motion throughout. A User’s Guide to Neglectful Parenting is an intimate, offbeat look at the joys of parenting. A User''s Guide to Neglectful Parenting has been translated from the French by Helge Dascher. Dascher has been translating graphic novels from French and German to English for over twenty years. A contributor to Drawn & Quarterly since the early days, her translations include acclaimed titles such as the Aya series by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie, Hostage by Guy Delisle, and Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët. With a background in art history and history, she also translates books and exhibitions for museums in North America and Europe. She lives in Montreal.

«Manuale del cattivo papà non è una strip umoristica. È un reportage dal fronte domestico, in linea con i celebri "Cronache di Gerusalemme" e "Pyongyang", ma sa essere universale. Perché la verità che si trova in questo libro non si vive solo tra le mura di casa Delisle: è nascosta in fondo al cuore di ogni padre.» (dalla prefazione di Simone Tempia). Con i bambini c''è poco da fare: puoi impegnarti quanto vuoi, ma ci sarà sempre qualcosa che sfugge al tuo controllo di genitore. Se poi il controllo è particolarmente soft, il disastro è sempre dietro l''angolo. Tra fughe al pronto soccorso scampate per miracolo, traumi infantili di intensità variabile e notti insonni, Guy Delisle racconta la sua esperienza di papà a tempo pieno. Lui, disegnatore di professione e giocherellone nell''anima, si ritrova a vestire gli improbabili panni del capo inflessibile. E si racconta in un libro che raccoglie i primi tre diari del cattivo papà, più un nuovo volume del tutto inedito. Un manuale di sopravvivenza per tutti gli uomini che avrebbero voluto prolungare all''infinito la propria gioventù, ma che la paternità ha (fortunatamente!) costretto a darsi una svegliata. *********************** Questo eBook è ottimizzato per la fruizione su tablet; se ne sconsiglia pertanto la lettura sui dispositivi eReader.

"Avant d''aller à Pyongyang, à Shenzhen et à Jérusalem, Guy Delisle a vécu à Québec où, durant trois étés, il a travaillé dans la même usine de pâte et papier que son père. Avec Chroniques de jeunesse, l''auteur revient sur son expérience de gars de shop, dressant un portrait drôle et touchant du milieu ouvrier et de ses années formatrices en tant qu''artiste"--Page 2 of cover.

And the award for worst dad ever still goes to . . . The Handbook to Lazy Parenting is the bestselling cartoonist Guy Delisle’s final tribute to the frequently hilarious and absurd situations that any parent will find themselves in when raising young children—all told with his trademark sarcastic wit. But even as his children grow older, wiser, and less interested in their father’s antics, Delisle has no shortage of bad-parenting stories, only now, sometimes the joke is on him! From trying to convince Louis to play video games instead of letting him do his homework, to forgetting Alice in a stationery store after buying a pen, to tricking the kids out of dessert to make up for his own blunder, Delisle tells relatable stories of parenthood, the mistakes we have trouble admitting to, and the impulse that we all sometimes have to give a comically serious answer to a child’s comically serious question. With impressive timing and pacing in these lighthearted vignettes, Delisle delivers his gut-wrenchingly funny punch lines in self-deprecating fashion, letting everyone know who is ultimately the butt of the joke. The Handbook to Lazy Parenting will delight parents, of course, but also anyone who has raised or known an inquisitive child and needs some pro tips on being, well, a bad dad!

APPEARED ON BEST OF THE YEAR LISTS FROM NPR, WASHINGTON POST, PASTE, AND MORE! How does one survive when all hope is lost? In the middle of the night in 1997, Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe André was kidnapped by armed men and taken away to an unknown destination in the Caucasus region. For three months, André was kept handcuffed in solitary confinement, with little to survive on and almost no contact with the outside world. Close to twenty years later, award-winning cartoonist Guy Delisle (Pyongyang, Jerusalem, Shenzhen, Burma Chronicles) recounts André’s harrowing experience in Hostage, a book that attests to the power of one man’s determination in the face of a hopeless situation. Marking a departure from the author’s celebrated first-person travelogues, Delisle tells the story through the perspective of the titular captive, who strives to keep his mind alert as desperation starts to set in. Working in a pared down style with muted color washes, Delisle conveys the psychological effects of solitary confinement, compelling us to ask ourselves some difficult questions regarding the repercussions of negotiating with kidnappers and what it really means to be free. Thoughtful, intense, and moving, Hostage takes a profound look at what drives our will to survive in the darkest of moments.

En 1997, alors qu''il est responsable d''une ONG médicale dans le Caucase, Christophe André a vu sa vie basculer du jour au lendemain après avoir été enlevé en pleine nuit et emmené, cagoule sur la tête, vers une destination inconnue. Guy Delisle l''a rencontré des années plus tard et a recueilli le récit de sa captivité – un enfer qui a duré 111 jours. Que peut-il se passer dans la tête d''un otage lorsque tout espoir de libération semble évanoui ? Un ouvrage déchirant, par l''auteur de "Pyongyang", de "Shenzhen", de "Chroniques birmanes" et de "Chroniques de Jérusalem".

Guy Delisle knows all the worst parenting techniques Guy Delisle, the author of Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City and A User''s Guide to Neglectful Parenting, shares hilarious new comic strips that pay tribute to all the ways parents can drive their kids crazy, and vice versa, in The Owner''s Manual to Terrible Parenting. Slipping grammar lessons into bedtime stories, being challenged by difficult toys, and pretending to forget you even have a son: it''s all in a day''s work for Delisle. In The Owner''s Manual, Delisle doesn''t hesitate to make a slightly bumbling, fictionalized version of himself the butt of the joke, though his children often contribute zingy repartee and laugh-out-loud insight in the stories on display here. The Owner''s Manual is the perfect antidote to frustrating car rides filled with "Are we there yet?" and epic battles over homework. Delisle''s effortless pacing and witty punch lines reign supreme here, making each vignette zip along to its conclusion.

"[Jerusalem] is a small miracle: concise, even-handed, highly particular." —The Guardian Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City is the acclaimed graphic memoirist Guy Delisle''s strongest work yet, a thoughtful and moving travelogue about life in contemporary Jerusalem. Delisle expertly lays the groundwork for a cultural road map of the Holy City, utilizing the classic "stranger in a strange land" point of view that made his other books required reading for understanding what daily life is like in cities few are able to travel to. Jerusalem explores the complexities of a city that represents so much to so many. It eloquently examines the impact of conflict on the lives of people on both sides of the wall while drolly recounting the quotidian: checkpoints, traffic jams, and holidays. When observing the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim populations that call Jerusalem home, Delisle''s drawn line is both sensitive and fair, assuming nothing and drawing everything. A sixteen-page appendix to the paperback edition lets the reader behind the curtain, revealing intimate process sketches from Delisle''s time in Jerusalem. Jerusalem is a masterfully hewn travelogue; topping Best of 2012 lists from The Guardian, Paste, and the Montreal Gazette, it was the graphic novel of the year.

ONE OF THE GUARDIAN''S BEST GRAPHIC NOVELS OF 2014! Ever wanted to know how to be awarded the Best Dad in the Whole World? Guy Delisle has all the answers for you in these lighthearted, entertaining tales of parental mishaps and practical jokes gone wrong. Whether he''s helping remove a pesky, wobbly, but not quite loose tooth or trying to win at hide-and-seek, his antics will resonate with every parent who has wanted to give a sarcastic answer to a funny question from their kid. Even More Bad Parenting Advice marks Delisle''s second foray into the world of offering bad advice to parents, and a second opportunity to express the minor frustrations and many joys of parenting. His skillful hand at illustration and ironic way with words, which helped to popularize his travelogues about daily life in faraway places, are just as much the stars here as he or his children are. His sense of comic timing shines through in these simply told stories; with their lively flow, a change in facial expression or a few words can serve as the punch line. Even More Bad Parenting Advice celebrates the reality that parenting isn''t all first steps and gold-starred report cards; it''s stinky diapers and never-ending drives to the grocery store, too.

Si dimentica della visita del topino dei denti, traumatizza la propria figlioletta con la spaventosa storia di un albero che le cresce nel pancino, elargisce consigli poco oculati per insegnare l''antica arte della boxe al maschietto di casa... Terribile, dispettoso e irriverente, Delisle si racconta alle prese con la prole in situazioni che rasentano l''assurdo, nelle quali - probabilmente - tanti altri papà non faticheranno a riconoscersi. Dall''autore di Cronache di Gerusalemme , le confessioni di un padre politicamente scorretto: uno spassoso diario che sa anche volgere un tenero sguardo sul mondo dell''infanzia. Ebook ottimizzato per Tablet, Mac e PC

"I quattro desideri del popolo: Opporsi a coloro che usano elementi esterni per propagare idee negative. Opporsi a coloro che tentano di mettere in pericolo la stabilità dello stato e il progresso della nazione. Opporsi alle nazioni estere che interferiscono negli affari interni dello stato. Annientare gli elementi distruttivi interni ed esterni come un solo e unico nemico." Il Myanmar visitato da Guy Delisle - assieme alla compagna Nadège, in missione per Medici senza Frontiere, e a Louis, il figlio di pochi mesi - è un Paese vessato dalle costrizioni di una dittatura militare sostenuta da potenti gruppi industriali, in cui ha vissuto per anni agli arresti la leader del movimento non-violento Aung San Suu Kyi; una nazione cresciuta per anni nella nebbia della censura mediatica, abituata a convivere con le piaghe profonde della povertà e di un sistema sanitario incapace di gestire l''emergenza di mali dilaganti come la malaria e l''H IV; ma anche una terra abitata da un popolo aperto e generoso, descritto in tutto il suo inarrestabile coraggio dall''autore di Cronache di Gerusalemme e Pyongyang. Ebook ottimizzato per Tablet, Mac e PC *********************** Questo eBook è ottimizzato per la fruizione su tablet; se ne sconsiglia pertanto la lettura sui dispositivi eReader.

Guy Delisle uses a graphic novel format to reflect on the experiences he had while working in Myanmar where his wife''s career allowed him to explore Burma''s rural and impoverished regions.