Guy Delisle
Guy Delisle ( born January 19, 1966 in Quebec ) is a Canadian comic book artist.
Life
Delisle studied from 1984 at Sheridan College in Toronto art and worked subsequently in 1986 for two years at the animation studio CinéGroupe in Montreal. His work took him to Europe, where he worked for German, Belgian and French studios. Many steps to the production of an animated film are given in Asia in order. Delisle observed and controlled this work for the studios locally and traveled for longer sections to China and North Korea. The collected in Asia experience was reflected in two graphic novels a journalistic, appeared in 2000 in Shenzhen, followed in 2003 by Pyongyang ( Pyongyang dt ). Both comics were first published in France by L'Association and then translated, inter alia, into English, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish.
In the French publisher Dargaud published from 2001 a series of humorous comics, where the occasionally silly police inspector Moroni is the main character.
With his wife, who for the Médecins sans frontières (MSF; German MSF ) works, lived Delisle 2005 14 months in Myanmar ( Burma until 1989 ), by which time he reported in the published in 2007 Comic Chroniques Birmanes ( dt. records from Burma ). 2008/2009 he accompanied again its working for MSF woman, this time for 12 months after Israel. Of this he says in the comic Chroniques de Jérusalem (German records from Jerusalem), for which he won the 2012 Prix du meilleur album of the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d' Angoulême.
His graphic novel Shenzen was a component of the series Süddeutsche Zeitung Library Graphic Novels in 2011.
Since 1991 lives and works in Montpellier Guy Delisle.
Reviews
Records from Jerusalem ( 2012):
" Delisle is for drawing reporters and chroniclers by all the encounters and events portrays that have happened to him during his one-year stay in Jerusalem. With his sketchy, economical colored strokes convicted us into scenes of seemingly absurd for us everyday madness. "
Awards and nominations
- 2012: Prix du meilleur album, Angoulême