Best Selling Books by Guy Delisle

"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."

Pyongyang nos permitirá descubrir cómo es la vida en Corea del Norte vista por un dibujante canadiense que se marcha a trabajar como supervisor de dibujos animados europeos realizados en la capital norcoreana. Estamos ante un libro que refleja de forma magistral el día a día en uno de los regímenes totalitarios más cerrados del mundo. Las sorprendentes anécdotas que cuenta el autor, sirven de contrapunto frente al horror de la dictadura. Pyongyang es un reportaje apasionante realizado por un autor dotado de una mirada aguda y nada complaciente.

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

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!

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.

Guy Delisle expertly lays the groundwork for a cultural road map of contemporary Jerusalem, utilizing the classic stranger-in-a-strange-land point of view that made his other books, Pyongyang, Shenzhen, and Burma Chronicles, required reading for understanding what daily life is like in cities few are able to travel to. In Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City, Delisle explores the complexities of a city that represents so much to so many. He eloquently examines the impact of the 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. Jerusalem showcases once more Delisle''s mastery of the travelogue.

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

HOW DOES ONE SURVIVE WHEN ALL HOPE IS LOST? In the middle of the night in 1997, Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe Andre was kidnapped by armed men and taken away to an unknown destination in the Caucasus region. For three months, Andre 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 Andre''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 colour 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.

How do you capture a changing world in the blink of an eye?

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.

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.

"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.