Guy Delisle is a Québécois cartoonist who now lives in the South of France after a globetrotting career through some of the most colorful countries around the world. He’s not a political documentarian ...

"It was in the early morning hours of July 2 that I was kidnapped." On the opening page of Guy Delisle's Hostage, those words hang in a slate-gray night sky, above a building in a nondescript ...

Pyongyang has been translated into many other languages, including English, Korean, Japanese and Norwegian. Images are from Guy Delisle’s web site. Pyongyang, a graphic novel from local publishing ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Guy Delisle makes comic books. But not that kind. A “graphic memoirist,” he creates ...

Guy Delisle has an adorable baby and a wife whose job with Médecins Sans Frontières takes her to some of the secretive places on earth. Luckily, Delisle is a cartoonist with a knack for whimsical ...

Comic books about superheroes get most of the attention these days. The tights-and-flights crowd dominates pop-culture and the box office. While there’s plenty of inspiration to be taken from the ...

In the late 1990s, when Chechnya was attempting to break away from Russia, a number of Westerners were kidnapped and held for ransom. Among them was Christophe André, taken from a Médecins Sans ...

Cartoonist and animator Guy Delisle has lived and worked in both Shenzhen, China and Pyongyang, North Korea. He recorded his experiences living in these cities (and in their respective national ...

There’s a moment in Guy Delisle’s 2011 graphic novel Jerusalem: Chronicles From The Holy City that nicely encapsulates exactly what it is he does so well. Delisle has taken his car to an auto repair ...

Yesterday, Guy Delisle discovered that the upcoming movie of his graphic novel Pyonyang, by and starring Steve Carell, had been cancelled as a result of situation regarding North Korea and the movie ...

For Free Comic Book Day this year, Drawn & Quarterly have previews of two French graphic novels they're translating into English for 2017…. Guy Delisle's Hostage about the experience of a kidnapped ...

Delisle has been nominated for several Doug Wright Awards throughout his career and, in 2012, won the prize for best album for the French edition of Jerusalem at the Angoulême International Comics ...