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Only 19 left in stock (more on the way). Perhaps in response to the censoring nature of the Burma dictatorship, Delisle deliberately renders governmental officials not in his signature simplistic style but in fully-featured and in some instances downright frightening detail, as on page 22 a girl fawning over his baby retrieves her father, referred to merely as "the patriarch," and presents him like a stiff and leering corpse (23).

Burma Chronicles (French: Chroniques Birmanes) is a 2007 Canadian graphic novel written and illustrated by Guy Delisle. Burma Chronicles is a travelogue about Delisle's time spent in Burma with his young son, Louis, and his wife, Nadège, an administrator for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Originally written in French, the book was translated into English by Helge Dascher and published by Drawn and Quarterly in 2008.

Burma Chronicles book. This graphic novel is similar to his other travelogues I've read, Pyongyang and Jerusalem, in that he draws his day-to-day life and his experiences in the region.

Guy Delisle (born January 19, 1966) is a Canadian cartoonist and animator, best known for his graphic novels about his travels, such as Shenzhen (2000), Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea (2003), Burma Chronicles (2007), and Jerusalem (2011). Delisle studied animation at Sheridan College in Oakville, near Toronto, and then worked for the animation studio CinéGroupe in Montreal. He later worked for different studios in Canada, Germany, France, China and North Korea.

Burma Chronicles, Guy Delisle. A unique take on Burma, Guy Delisle’s Burma Chronicles is a graphic novel depicting the year Delisle spent in the country with his wife and young son, and their surreal experience of dealing with the autocratic military junta which ruled the country. Written in Delisle’s typically unadorned and minimalistic style, Burma Chronicles is a simple but hugely enlightening book which reveals the graphic novel’s capacity for reportage

Burma Chronicles is a book which manages to do this in a very intimate, personal, mellow sort of wa. I can't think of another comic book that illustrates this more elegantly or clearly than Guy Delisle's work.

Burma Chronicles is a book which manages to do this in a very intimate, personal, mellow sort of way. Delisle isn't an activist, he isn't oppressed in any way, but every day in Myanmar he is affected by the ruling dictatorship of the country he is in. When he goes for a walk he notices that a nearby neighbor is actually a well-known politician, under house arrest for many years.

The Guy Delisle Chronicles is a documentary following the gradual realisation of the artist's latest travelogue.

Delisle's deft and recognizable renderings take note of almsgiving rituals, daylong power outages, and rampant heroin use in. .line, and interspersed with wordless vignettes and moments of Delisle's distinctive slapstick humor.

Delisle's deft and recognizable renderings take note of almsgiving rituals, daylong power outages, and rampant heroin use in outlying regions, in this place where catastrophic mismanagement and iron-handed rule come up against profound resilience of spirit, expatriate life ambles along, and nongovernmental organizations struggle with the risk of co-option by the military junta. Burma Chronicles is drawn with a minimal.

Guy Delisle's newest travelogue revolves around a year spent in Burma (also known as Myanmar) with his wife and son. Burma is notorious for its use of concealment and isolation as social control: where scissor-wielding censors monitor the papers, the de facto leader of the opposition ha. Burma is notorious for its use of concealment and isolation as social control: where scissor-wielding censors monitor the papers, the de facto leader of the opposition has been under decade-long house arrest, regions are effectively cut off from the world, and rumour is the most reliable source of current information. An impressive and moving work of comics journalism from the author of Pyongyang and Shenzen.