I for one am not thrilled at that company’s implosion ( unlike some snarky others). Why Burma Chronicles you ask? They shuttered our local Borders Books and I got it on clearance, that’s why. In this installment of Illustrated Man, we turn our attention to Burma Chronicles, Delisle’s most recent foray into the graphic representation of a westerner’s encounter with an Asian culture.
Comic fans and other curious characters can find previews of these works over at Drawn and Quarterly, he also keeps his own website with a blog in French (the man is Quebecois).
A similar work situation found Delisle temporarily placed in Shenzhen, China, an experience that was also turned into a travelogue. An animator by training Delisle was granted a two month work visa to oversee the production of a children’s cartoon in that isolated nation. Pyongyang, perhaps his best known work, is a graphic memoir of his travels in North Korea. Guy Delisle gets around, notably to places most of us don’t go.
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