Guy Delisle

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Guy Delisle

Born	Guy Delisle January 19, 1966 (1966-01-19) (age 42) Quebec, Canada
Occupation	Cartoonist

Guy Delisle (born January 19, 1966) is a comic book author from the province of Quebec, Canada. He studied animation at Sheridan College in Toronto and then worked for the animation studios CinéGroupe in Montreal. He later worked for different studios in Canada, Germany, France, China and North Korea. His experiences as a supervisor of animation work of studios in Asia were recounted in two graphic novels, Shenzhen (2000) and Pyongyang (2003). The two books, Delisle's most famous work, were first published in French by the independent bande dessinée publisher L'Association. They have been translated into many languages, including English, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish.

He is married to a Médecins Sans Frontières administrator.^[1] With her, he made a trip to Myanmar (Burma) in 2005, which is recounted in "Chroniques Birmanes" (2007) ^[2].

[edit] Published work

Réflexion, L'Association (1996)
Aline et les autres, L'Association (1999)
Shenzhen, L'Association (2000), Drawn & Quarterly (2006), Reprodukt (2006), Fusi orari (2007)
Albert et les autres, L'Association (2001)
Comment ne rien faire, Pastèque (2002)
Pyongyang, L'Association (2003), Drawn & Quarterly (2005), Fusi orari (2006)
Inspecteur Moroni 1 : Premiers pas Dargaud (2001)
Inspecteur Moroni 2 : Avec ou sans sucre Dargaud (2002)
Inspecteur Moroni 3 : Le Syndrome de Stockholm, Dargaud (2004)
Louis au ski, Delcourt (2005), Reprodukt (2007)
Chroniques Birmanes, Delcourt (2007), Fusi orari (2008)