More balanced and accessible than many other works on the complex region, it is a perfect conclusion to his worldwide storytelling.ĭelisle, who studied animation at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ont., said the tone of the book, covering a period from July 2008 to July 2009, didn’t exactly start off on a humourous note. The result is another series of charming and deceptively complex vignettes, but ones with even more depth than he’s ever achieved. His fourth major travelogue, Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City, released in April, finds him tiptoeing back and forth from the light to the heavy side of one of the most complex cities on the planet. He isn’t moving on without delivering one heck of a parting gift for his fans, though. “I’m still going to do autobiographical books - they’re a lot of fun to do - but it’s not going to be about visiting a country for a year. This doesn’t mean Delisle, one of the featured guests at this weekend’s Toronto Comic Arts Festival, is done making light of himself and his misadventures. “My wife is going to stop doing humanitarian work with Doctors Without Borders because the kids are getting too old - they’re 8 and 5 now - and it’s really complicated, for them and for us, to have them away like that for a year.” “There’s not going to be anymore books like that because we’ve decided to stop going abroad like that,” said the 46-year-old native of Quebec City, who now resides in Montpellier, France. The Canadian cartoonist’s travels to cities like Pyongyang, North Korea Shenzhen, China and Yangon, Burma have yielded comical - yet often very thoughtful results - in three critically acclaimed graphic memoirs released over the past decade.īut, of course, there comes a time to settle down. Guy Delisle can find humour in even the most complicated places.

Chroniques de Jérusalem by Guy Delisle