GUY DELISLE BURMA CHRONICLES DOWNLOAD

So, it was natural that a certain detachm Good work. What a delightful read! Since Guy is an animator, he seeks out other graphic artists whenever he visits a new country. Mar 06, Tyska rated it liked it Shelves: The cartoonist, his wife and son move to Myanmmar when his wife, who works for Doctors Without Borders, is posted there for a year. The year long stay is presented through short stories, usually between one and four pages, showing either a specific event that happens, or his impression of an element of the local culture.

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One thing the book benefited from over his North Korea one is he's much more comfortable making fun of himself, especially Guy Delisle's Burma book is definitely recommended. Guy obsesses about getting enough doses of Tamiflu, until another worker points out that it probably wouldn't work anyway because it was prescribed to treat the seasonal flu, which is a different strain of the virus. Guy Delisle's travelogue comics are interesting. We envision the enormous ancient teak house in Mudan that is rented by MSF, and the local translation of a British village complete with fenced front gardens.

Qualities - well, first of all, I love the comic format as a medium. It's functionally served its own purpose. His wife's work is to give treatment and supplies and to open clinics in the faraway borders between Burma and Thailand.

The book is a sketched version of a daily diary - seen from the perspective of a foreigner, not getting too involved in things.

Burma Chronicles - Guy Delisle

The only substantial contact he ever had with the locals was with his guides provided by the government of North Korea. So, it was natural that a certain detachm Good work. Jan 21, Tom LA rated it really liked it. Burma Chronicles was generally well received. It's basically watching a jackass hang out bburma nothing to do rather than watching a jackass make a fool out of gestapo by de,isle their aggression with foppish insolence.

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The "newspaper funnies"-style both visually and structurally at times feels at odds with the matter at hand, but it does end up working really well. I'd recommend this to anyone who is a fan of the non-super hero graphic novel, chornicles I'd encourage anyone who likes travelogues or finding out about different cultures to check it out.

Considering being a skeptical reader when it comes to non-fiction and documentary genre, I'm happy, and almost relieved to see my new favorite cartoonist doesn't tell but shows how living in the foreign country in the midst delidle military regime was like instead of prejudices. Jun 21, Trish rated it really liked it Shelves: Wish he visits India and writes this kind of a fun travelogue: It does seem like he set out from the start with a plan: In all hcronicles, Delilsle fails to note the selfless compassion shown cgronicles a man who at least once walked back to his home without an umbrella to help out two grown men who were incapable of making their way through the same rain.

Secondly, have read a bit about Burma in Theroux and Pico Iyer's travelogues and felt they were better.

Thanks for telling us about the problem. Originally written in French, the book was translated into English by Helge Dascher and published by Drawn and Quarterly in With its many different chroniccles of living in Burma, Burma Chronicles does give some impression of a fair amount of it -- but not nearly enough. It's a bit delizle to get hands on the ones I cherish.

Jan 11, Gorab Jain rated it really liked it Shelves: Hardcoverpages. Guy isn't here to spout anti-Burmese government rhetoric, nor is he making a statement about colonialism, nor any other. I have enjoyed every one of his graphic novels--he has such a unique perspective on the places he visits, and his lovely small sk My local library recently moved the graphic novels to a shelf that abuts the cafe where my daughter and I have lunch every Wednesday.

Meanwhile, this book doesn't try to justify any currents and is humble enough to give me a little nostalgic, relatable and whimsical sense of humor instead. chrobicles

His point of view as a stranded foreigner and a purpose to be there and observe also babysit his son is very selective and cut-short, opened for interpretation and various judgements, plus even the politics couldn't be more sarcastic but truly humorous.

Published April 1st by Jonathan Cape first published October 17th Exactly the right amount of visual information for a chronicle of this type.

Burma Chronicles

Aid workers, represented in by pictures and acronyms, wait and wait for travel passes to the destinations where the need is greatest. He is a stay at home dad, working on his cartoon books including this graphic presentation of his stay in Burma.

Delisle had previously documented his traveling to countries under oppressive regimes in the graphic novels Shenzhen and Pyongyangwhich focused on his extended trips to China and North Korea, respectively.