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  • Plan of Occupancy

    by Guy Delisle, Jean Echenoz ...
    Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...
    An awardwinning cartoonist adapts the well-regarded French novella by Jean Echenoz in this taut and moving study on grief.A Parisian woman dies in a fire leaving her husband and son behind, bereft.The fire has destroyed all traces of her. The only reminder the men have is a multi-storey mural, a perfume ad, featuring the woman as a young model. In his grief, the son silently walks by the mural ... Read more

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  • Muybridge

    by Guy Delisle ...
    Translated by Helge Dascher ...
    How do you capture a changing world in the blink of an eye?Sacramento, California, 1870. Pioneer photographer Eadweard Muybridge becomesentangled in railroad robber baron Leland Stanford’s delusions of grandeur. Tasked withproving Stanford’s belief that a horse’s hooves do not touch the ground while galloping atfull speed, Muybridge gets to work with his camera. In doing so, he inadvertently ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Hostage

    by Guy Delisle ...
    Translated by Helge Dascher ...
    **APPEARED ON BEST OF THE YEAR LISTS FROM NPR, WASHINGTON POST, PASTE, AND MORE!How does one survive when all hope is lost?**In the middle of the night in 1997, Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe André was kidnapped by armed men and taken away to an unknown destination in the Caucasus region. For three months, André was kept handcuffed in solitary confinement, with little to survive ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Factory Summers

    by Guy Delisle ...
    Translated by Helge Dascher, Rob Aspinall ...
    The legendary cartoonist aims his pen and paper toward his high school summer jobFor three summers beginning when he was 16, cartoonist Guy Delisle worked at a pulp and paper factory in Quebec City. Factory Summers chronicles the daily rhythms of life in the mill, and the twelve hour shifts he spent in a hot, noisy building filled with arcane machinery. Delisle takes his noted outsider perspective ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Jerusalem

    Chronicles from the Holy City

    by Guy Delisle ...
    Translated by Helge Dascher ...
    **"[Jerusalem] is a small miracle: concise, even-handed, highly particular." —***The GuardianJerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City* is the acclaimed graphic memoirist Guy Delisle's strongest work yet, a thoughtful and moving travelogue about life in contemporary Jerusalem. Delisle expertly lays the groundwork for a cultural road map of the Holy City, utilizing the classic "stranger in a strange ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • World Record Holders

    by Guy Delisle ...
    Translated by Helge Dascher, Rob Aspinall ...
    A funny and insightful retrospective collection from a celebrated cartoonist.Universally beloved cartoonist Guy Delisle showcases a career-spanning collection of his work with a sly sense of humor and warm characterization. Before Delisle became an international superstar with his globe-hopping travelogues, he was an animator experimenting with the comics form. Always aware of the elasticity of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Pyongyang

    A Journey in North Korea

    by Guy Delisle ...
    Translated by Helge Dascher ...
    The perennial graphic novel about a “hermit country,” with a new cover and an introduction by Gore VerbinskiGuy Delisle’s Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea is the graphic novel that made his career, an international bestseller for more than ten years. Delisle became one of the few Westerners to be allowed access to the fortress-like country when he was working in animation for a French company ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Shenzhen

    A Travelogue from China

    by Guy Delisle ...
    Translated by Helge Dascher ...
    Shenzhen is entertainingly compact with Guy Delisle's observations of life in urban southern China, sealed off from the rest of the country by electric fences and armed guards. With a dry wit and a clean line, Delisle makes the most of his time spent in Asia overseeing outsourced production for a French animation company. He brings to life the quick pace of Shenzhen's crowded streets. By ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Burma Chronicles

    by Guy Delisle ...
    Translated by Helge Dascher ...
    THE POPULAR TRAVELOGUE NOW IN PAPERBACKFrom the author of Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea and Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China comes Burma Chronicles, an informative look at a country that uses concealment and isolation as social control. It is drawn with Guy Delisle's minimal line, interspersed with wordless vignettes and moments of his distinctive slapstick humor. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting

    by Guy Delisle ...
    Translated by Helge Dascher ...
    Meditations on fatherhood from the author of Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy CityWith A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting, the trademark dry humor that pervades Guy Delisle's landmark and praised graphic travelogues takes center stage. Quick, light vignettes play on the worries and cares any young parent might have, and offer wry solutions to the petty frustrations of being a dad who works ... Read more

    $9.99 USD