Most Popular Books by Guy Delisle

Shenzhen is entertainingly compact with Guy Delisle’s observations of life in urban southern China, sealed off from the rest of the country by electric fences and armed guards. With a dry wit and a clean line, Delisle makes the most of his time spent in Asia overseeing outsourced production for a French animation company. By translating his fish-out-of-water experiences into accessible graphic novels, Delisle skillfully notes the differences between Western and Eastern cultures, while also conveying his compassion for the simple freedoms that escape his colleagues in the Communist state. Shenzhen 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.

"[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.

"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."

The perennial graphic novel about the "Hermit Country" with new cover and introduction by Gore Verbinski Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea is Guy Delisle''s graphic novel that made his career,an international bestseller for over ten years. Delisle became one of the few Westerners to be allowed access to the fortresslike country when he was working in animation for a French company. While living in the nation''s capital for two months on a work visa, Delisle observed everything he was allowed to see of the culture and lives of the few North Koreans he encountered, bringing a sardonic and skeptical perspective on a place rife with propaganda. As a guide to the country, Delisle is a non-believer with a keen eye for the humor and tragedy of dictatorial whims, expressed in looming architecture and tiny, omnipresent photos of the President. The absurd vagaries of everyday life become fodder for a frustrated animator’s musings as boredom and censorship sink in. Delisle himself is the ideal foil for North Korean spin, the grumpy outsider who brought a copy of George Orwell’s 1984 with him into the totalitarian nation. Pyongyang is an informative, personal, and accessible look at a dangerous and enigmatic country. Pyongyang 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.

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

This wordless graphic novel follows the lives of the title character and other men in twenty-six short vignettes.

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.

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.

Agosto 2008: un volo notturno porta Guy Delisle a Gerusalemme, dove il fumettista e la sua famiglia trascorreranno un anno della propria vita per dare modo a Nadège, la compagna di Guy, di partecipare a una missione di Medici Senza Frontiere. Vivranno a Beit Hanina, un quartiere nella zona est della città che sin dalla prima passeggiata si mostrarà, in tutta la sua desolazione, decisamente diverso da Gerusalemme propagandata dalle guide turistiche; e si destreggeranno più o meno goffamente in una quotidianità fatta di checkpoint e frontiere - teatro di perquisizioni e infiniti quanto surreali interrogatori -, dalle mille sfumature di laicità e ultraortodossia, di tensioni feroci e di contrasti millenari, e della disperata speranza, della rabbia e della frustrazione del popolo palestinese, in lotta ogni giorno contro l''occupazione, devastato dall''atrocità di un attacco (la tristemente nota Operazione Piombo Fuso) di cui l''autore si trova a essere basito spettatore. Un quotidianità condizionata dunque da grandi questioni, eppure fatta, come ogni altra, di piccoli momenti, narrati con stile impeccabile e travolgente potenza espressiva dall''autore di Pyongyang, Cronache birmane e Shezen. 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.

"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.

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".

"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.

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

Premio al Mejor álbum en el Salón Internacional del Cómic de Angoulême 2012 Tras un año en Jerusalén acompañando a su pareja, miembro de Médicos Sin Fronteras, Guy Delisle nos ofrece en Crónicas de Jerusalén, una de las novelas gráficas más esperadas del año, su personal visión de uno de los conflictos más enquistados de la actualidad.

Una zona di guerra, un lungo rapimento, un uomo costretto a ripensare tutta la sua vita. Una storia vera.

Oublier le passage de la petite souris, inventer une histoire de tueur psychopathe à la tombée de la nuit, rivaliser de puérilité avec ses enfants, gagner en trichant et les mettre au défi de faire pire... Guy Delisle, un mauvais père ? Non, un auteur de bande dessinée qui sait puiser l''imagination là où elle se trouve, avec un sens aigu de l''observation et une bonne dose d''autodérision. [Payot].

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.

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!

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.

"Guy Delisle et sa famille s''installent pour une année à Jérusalem. Mais pas évident de se repérer dans cette ville aux multiples visages, animée par les passions et les conflits depuis près de 4 000 ans. Au détour d''une ruelle, à la sortie d''un lieu saint, à la terrasse d''un café, le dessinateur laisse éclater des questions fondamentales et nous fait découvrir un Jérusalem comme on ne l''a jamais vu." [Source : site de l''éditeur]

Guy Delisle desta vez nos dá sua visão crítica e bem-humorada sobre o dia a dia de uma região que está permanentemente nas manchetes dos jornais. Local sagrado para judeus, muçulmanos e cristãos, Jerusalém está no centro do conflito israelense-palestino, e o autor percorre este território com sua mulher – que trabalha para a organização Médicos Sem Fronteiras – e seus dois filhos, narrando suas experiências cotidianas e observações sobre a política, a religião e o relacionamento humano. Crônicas de Jerusalém ganhou o Prêmio Fauve D’Or 2012 de melhor álbum no Festival International de la Bande Dessinée de Angoulême, na França.

Bereits 2005 begleitete Guy Delisle seine Frau, die für die Hilfsorganisation Ärzte ohne Grenzen arbeitet, nach Birma. Zwei Jahre später folgt ein einjähriger Aufenthalt der inzwischen vierköpfigen Familie in Israel. Zwischen Haushalt, Kinderpflege und dem Versuch, ein neues Projekt in Angriff zu nehmen, erkundet der Zeichner Jerusalem und kommt ganz allmählich hinter die Geheimnisse der Heiligen Stadt. In gewohnt lakonisch-humorvoller Manier beobachtet Guy Delisle den Alltag in Jerusalem und zeichnet so ein sehr persönliches Bild eines Landes, das wie kein zweites von jahrzehntelangen blutigen Konflikten geprägt ist.

Comment ne rien faire regroupe les courts travaux de l''auteur québécois parus dans diverses publications au cours des dernières années. A travers ces histoires expérimentales ou intimistes, aux chutes parfois déconcertantes, Guy Delisle crée une œuvre empreinte de finesse et d''humour.

Guy Delisle a suivi sa compagne durant 14 mois en Birmanie alors qu’elle y collaborait avec Médecins sans Frontières. Il raconte son expérience du pays, comment il a fini par apprivoiser son environnement et, petit à petit, comment il a découvert la réalité politique, sanitaire et sociale de ce pays dominé par une junte militaire, soutenue elle-même par de puissants groupes industriels.

Québécois travaillant en France dans l''animation, Delisle fait aussi dans les marges de ses storyboards des bandes dessinées. Ici, les états d''âme d''un personnage entre quatre murs vont dévoiler une surprise.--[Memento]

" Selon son psychiatre, nous avons là un mythomane souffrant d''un complexe de persécution aigu. Bref, le barjo parano. "