Will appeal to multiple audiences: current events buffs, Persepolisįans and those who just love a good yarn. Delisle's simple but expressive art works well with his account, humanizing the few North Koreans he gets to know (including "Comrade Guide" and "Comrade Translator"), and facilitating digressions into North Korean history and various bizarre happenings involving brandy and bear cubs. Delisle shifts between accounts of his work as an animator and life as a visitor in a country where all foreigners take up only two floors of a 50-story hotel. Pyongyang is an informative, personal and accessible look at an enigmatic country. Combining a gift for anecdote and an ear for absurd dialogue, Delisle's retelling of his adventures makes a gently humorous counterpoint to the daily news stories about the axis of evil, a Lost in Translationįor the Communist world. He also got crappy ice cream, a barrage of propaganda and a chance to fly paper airplanes out of his 15th-floor hotel window. Pyongyang: A Journey In North Korea Author Guy Delisle Publisher Drawn & Quarterly Sent abroad to oversee the progress of a low-budget cartoon, Canadian animator Guy Delisle learned that. Guy is a man of few words, and although he presents us with detailed pictures of life in Pyongyang, he doesn’t draw any explicit conclusion for us. But, speaking of drawings, he leaves us to draw our own conclusions.
He shows us the sites with his lovingly rendered drawings. While there, he got a rare chance to observe firsthand one of the last remaining totalitarian Communist societies. Guy Delisle Guy Talk Guy’s our guide to North Korea. In 2001, French-Canadian cartoonist Delisle traveled to North Korea on a work visa to supervise the animation of a children's cartoon show for two months.
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