Guy Delisle Knihy

Acclaimed graphic memoirist Delisle returns with a thoughtful and moving travelogue about life in East Jerusalem and his involvement with the brutal, three-week Gaza War.

Guy Delisle's newest travelogue revolves around a year spent in Burma (also known as Myanmar) with his wife and son.

Famously referred to as one of the "Axis of Evil" countries, North Korea remains one of the most secretive and mysterious nations in the world today. In early 2001 cartoonist Guy Delisle became one of the few Westerners to be allowed access to the fortress-like country. While living in the nation's capital for two months on a work visa for a French film animation company, Delisle observed what he was allowed to see of the culture and lives of the few North Koreans he encountered; his findings form the basis of this graphic novel.Guy Delisle was born in Quebec City in 1966 and has spent the last decade living and working in the South of France with his wife and son. Delisle has spent ten years, mostly in Europe, working in animation, an experience that taught him about movement and drawing. He is now currently focusing on his cartooning. Delisle has written and drawn six graphic novels, including "Pyongyang," his first graphic novel in English.

The follow-up graphic novel to the acclaimed Pyongyang: A Journey to North Korea Shenzhen is entertainingly compact, with Guy Delisle's observations of life in a cold urban city in southern China that is 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 is quick to find the humor and point out the differences between Western and Eastern cultures. Yet he never forgets to relay his compassion for the simple freedoms that escape his colleagues by virtue of living in a Communist state.

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.

"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 and his dad aren't close, and Guy's witnessing of the workplace politics and toxic masculinity leaves him reconciling whether the job was the reason for his dad's unhappiness. On his days off, Guy found 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 and to avoid a career of unhappiness, Guy throws caution to the wind."-- Provided by publisher

Laugh-out-loud anecdotes from the front lines of parenting.

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, 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 funny and insightful retrospective collection from a celebrated cartoonist.

Rabenvater Delisle ist zurück und hat allerlei neue Tipps für die pädagogisch wenig wertvolle Erziehung parat: Da wird der Sohnemann bestochen, ein Feuerzeug vom Grill zu angeln, das der übermütige Papa in die Glut gepfeffert hat. Und als Töchterchen Alice in der Schule ein paar Schimpfworte aufschnappt, ist es von größter Dringlichkeit, ihr das grammatisch korrekte Fluchen beizubringen. Eine großzügige Portion Ironie und gekonnt ausgespielte Pointen prägen auch den dritten Band von Guy Delisles Anti-Ratgeber, der jedoch nie ins Sarkastische abdriftet.

Der kleine Louis verbringt den Winterurlaub mit seiner Familie in den Bergen. Als Anfänger auf Skiern muss er sich mit vielen Dingen herumplagen, die auch erfahrenen Wintersportlern bekannt sind: Überhebliche Pistenrowdies, unerwartet steile Abfahrten, schwer bedienbare Skilifte und… nasse Socken! Louis´ unschuldiger Blick entlarvt den Widersprüchlichkeit der Erwachsenen, die gestresst Entspannung auf planierten Pisten suchen – und ganz nebenbei muss er sich mit seiner arroganten großen Schwester herumplagen. Aber wenn es mal brenzlig wird, hilft ihm immer seine kindliche Fantasie. Guy Delisle beweist mit „Louis fährt Ski“, dass er neben seinen autobiografischen Arbeiten („Shenzhen“, „Pjöngjang“) ebenso gekonnt einen humorvollen Comic zu zeichnen weiß, der vollkommen ohne Worte auskommt. Trotz dieser Beschränkung gelingt dem Zeichner ein pointierter Blick auf den Wintersport aus der Sicht eines kleinen Jungen, der das Treiben um sich herum mit einer Mischung aus Gleichmut und kindlichem Tatendrang registriert.

Der kleine Louis fährt im Sommer mit seinem Papa ans Meer. Während sein Vater sich damit begnügt, ein wenig am Strand herzumzulümmeln, sehnt sich Louis nach dem Abenteuer. Um aus dem Alltag des langweiligen Strandurlaubs auszubrechen, erschafft er sich kurzerhand aus seiner Decke einen imaginären Freund. Zu zweit werden Heldengeschichten um die Bewohner der Sandburgen erfunden und auch der Tanz mit einem Riesenfisch macht viel mehr Spaß, wenn man dabei nicht allein ist… Und überhaupt: In Louis’ kindlicher Fantasie ist nichts unmöglich.

Neue Tipps für Rabenväter verrät Guy Delisle im vierten Band seines Anti-Ratgebers: Wie man sich als Vater bei der Lehrerin des Nachwuchses unbeliebt macht, seine Kinder vom Hausaufgaben machen abhält oder sie dazu bringt zu kooperieren, nur um sie dann dafür zu bestrafen. Auch wie man die Sprösslinge vor einer Prüfung vollkommen verrückt macht oder ihnen Angst vorm Schlafengehen einjagt, bekommt Mann hier wunderbar anschaulich vermittelt. Gewohnt ironisch und pädagogisch inkorrekt widmet sich Guy Delisle aufs Neue den Rabenvaterfreuden. Sein Rezept: dreiste Schwindeleien, kindische Albernheiten, deftige Wutanfälle und eine gute Portion schwarzer Humor.