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My Take
Guy Delisle is, to me, one of the most quietly important storytellers in modern comics. While most cartoonists invent worlds, he ventures into the difficult real ones, Pyongyang, Shenzhen, Burma, Jerusalem, and renders them with deadpan honesty and disarming humor. His animator's eye gives him a precision of observation that turns mundane bureaucratic absurdities into sharp commentary on closed societies. The 2014 Angoulême Prize for Best Album confirmed what readers already knew. I value him as a kind of gentle documentarian, someone who maps the world's stranger corners in a soft, unhurried line and leaves us genuinely changed.
Overview
Guy Delisle (/ɡi dəlil/, born January 19, 1966) is a Canadian cartoonist and animator, best known for his graphic novels about his travels, such as Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China (2000), Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea (2003), Burma Chronicles (2007), and Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City (2008).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Guy Delisle
- Name (Japanese)
- ギィ・ドゥリール
- Reading
- ぎぃ・どぅりーる
- Born
- January 19, 1966 (age 60)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Horse
- Origin
- Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- comics artist / film director / animator / colorist / comics writer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 2017 Shuster Award for Outstanding Cartoonist
- 2014 Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Best Album
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | Shenzhen | — | |
| Notable work | Pyongyang | — | |
| Notable work | Louis au ski | — | |
| Notable work | Burma Chronicles | — | |
| Notable work | Chroniques de Jérusalem | — |
6. Links
Comics artist — see all → · Film director — see all → · More people from Canada →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.