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Transformar la lectura de antes de dormir en una clase de gramática o en una fábrica de pesadillas, rivalizar en puerilidad con los hijos, enseñarles todo tipo de tonterías, ganar con trampas y desafiarles a quién lo hace peor... Guy Delisle, autor de obras como Shenzhen, Pyongyang, Crónicas birmanas y Crónicas de Jerusalén, un mal padre? No, simplemente un autor de historietas que busca las ideas allí donde se encuentran y las adereza con un agudo sentido de la observación y una gran capacidad para reírse de sí mismo.

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Tras sus crónicas en Shenzhen, Pyongyang, Birmania y Jerusalén, Guy Delisle, con su precisión y delicadeza habituales, emprende un nuevo viaje, esta vez en el tiempo, al corazón de su Quebec natal. Antes de ser un famoso autor de cómic, el estudiante Delisle trabajó tres veranos en una fábrica de papel. A partir de esta experiencia juvenil, elabora un retrato divertido y fresco del mundo del trabajo y rememora la relación con su padre, empleado en la misma fábrica.'Crónicas de juventud' presenta una galería de personajes pintorescos, los trabajadores con los que Guy Delisle, entonces estudiante de arte, compartió su vida cotidiana durante tres veranos. Hoy, estos trabajadores cobran vida a través de la pluma de Delisle, al igual que la fábrica, que es sin duda la protagonista de la historia. En efecto, Guy Delisle no escatima en detalles sobre el funcionamiento de las máquinas, las tareas repetitivas que deben realizar los empleados, los peligros a los que se enfrentan...

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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 on and almost no contact with the outside world. Close to twenty years later, award-winning cartoonist Guy Delisle (Pyongyang, Jerusalem, Shenzhen, Burma Chronicles) recounts André’s harrowing experience in Hostage, a book that attests to the power of one man’s determination in the face of a hopeless situation. Marking a departure from the author’s celebrated first-person travelogues, Delisle tells the story through the perspective of the titular captive, who strives to keep his mind alert as desperation starts to set in. Working in a pared down style with muted colour washes, Delisle conveys the psychological effects of solitary confinement, compelling us to ask ourselves some difficult questions regarding the repercussions of negotiating with kidnappers and what it really means to be free. Thoughtful, intense, and moving, Hostage takes a profound look at what drives our will to survive in the darkest of moments.

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The Handbook to Lazy Parenting is the bestselling cartoonist Guy Delisle's final tribute to the frequently hilarious and absurd situations that any parent will find themselves in when raising young children--all told with his trademark sarcastic wit. But even as his children grow older, wiser, and less interested in their father's antics, Delisle has no shortage of bad-parenting stories, only now, sometimes the joke is on him! From trying to convince Louis to play video games instead of letting him do his homework, to forgetting Alice in a stationery store after buying a pen, to tricking the kids out of dessert to make up for his own blunder, Delisle tells relatable stories of parenthood, the mistakes we have trouble admitting to, and the impulse that we all sometimes have to give a comically serious answer to a child's comically serious question. With impressive timing and pacing in these lighthearted vignettes, Delisle delivers his gut-wrenchingly funny punch lines in self-deprecating fashion, letting everyone know who is ultimately the butt of the joke. The Handbook to Lazy Parenting will delight parents, of course, but also anyone who has raised or known an inquisitive child and needs some pro tips on being, well, a bad dad!

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Guy Delisle's newest travelogue revolves around a year spent in Burma (also known as Myanmar) with his wife and son. Burma is notorious for its use of concealment and isolation as social control: where scissor-wielding censors monitor the papers, the de facto leader of the opposition has been under decade-long house arrest, insurgent-controlled regions are effectively cut off from the world, and rumour is the most reliable source of current information.An impressive and moving work of comics journalism from the author of Pyongyang and Shenzen.

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Desafiar a sus hijos a videojuegos cuando hacen los deberes, olvidar a su hija en una tienda y hacerle creer lo contrario, hablarles de su maravillosa vida de estudiante... cuando ellos no existían. Guy Delisle, autor de obras como 'Shenzhen', 'Pyongyang', 'Crónicas birmanas', 'Crónicas de Jerusalén' y 'Escapar', tan paternalmente incorrecto como siempre, recupera con 'Guía del mal padre 4', cuatro años después de la anterior entrega, su papel preferido: mejor (mal) padre del mundo! Su receta: una buena dosis de mala fe, enfados inoportunos, un montón de chiquilladas y, sobre todo, mucho humor.Guy Delisle juega de nuevo en este cuarto tomo de la serie con nuestro sentimiento de culpa y se adjudica, para mayor disfrute de sus lectores, el papel de padre irresponsable y canalla. Delisle se divierte pervirtiendo el imaginario infantil y actúa como un adulto mezquino ante sus hijos sin prestar atención a las consecuencias de su proceder y del contenido de las historias que les cuenta.

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?Ser rehén es peor que estar en la cárcel. En la cárcel, sabes por qué estás allí y en qué fecha saldrás. Cuando eres rehén, ni siquiera tienes esas referencias. No tienes nada?, asegura Christophe André, miembro de una ONG médica en la región del Cáucaso y secuestrado durante su primera misión humanitaria en 1997. Así da comienzo un cautiverio que no sabe cuándo terminará ni siquiera si saldrá vivo.Tras numerosos encuentros con él, Guy Delisle decide contar su historia. Un testimonio desgarrador, angustioso y, a veces, impredecible, en el que cada viñeta muestra las dudas y la larga espera de un hombre cuya vida puede interrumpirse en cualquier momento. El autor de Pyongyang, Shenzhen, Crónicas birmanas y Crónicas de Jerusalén consigue poner en imágenes de una gran sutileza la historia y peripecias de un rehén en Chechenia.Christophe André pasará en total 111 días en manos de sus secuestradores. El lector asiste a las reflexiones y a los altibajos en el estado de ánimo de un hom

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Ensañarse con su hijo para ganarle en un videojuego, soltarle el sermón a su hija por haberle ganado al escondite o, peor aún, inventarse una historia de psicópata asesino a la hora de acostarse... Guy Delisle, autor de obras como Shenzhen, Pyongyang, Crónicas birmanas y Crónicas de Jerusalén, un mal padre? No, simplemente un autor de historietas que busca las ideas allí donde se encuentran y las adereza con un agudo sentido de la observación y una gran capacidad para reírse de sí mismo.

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[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 land point of view that made his other books required reading for understanding what daily life is like in cities few are able to travel to. Jerusalem explores the complexities of a city that represents so much to so many. It eloquently examines the impact of conflict on the lives of people on both sides of the wall while drolly recounting the quotidian: checkpoints, traffic jams, and holidays.When observing the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim populations that call Jerusalem home, Delisle''s drawn line is both sensitive and fair, assuming noth

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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.

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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 humour 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 the human form and honing his keen observer s eye, young Delisle created hilarious set pieces. World Record Holders ranges from wistful childhood nostalgia to chagrined post-fame encounters, touching on formally ambitious visual puns and gut-busting what-ifs. Delisle again and again shows how life is both exhilarating and embarrassing. Delisle visits an exhibition of his work in another country and is confronted by an angry spouse who blames him for destroying her marriage. A juvenile game of Bows and Arrows turns menacing as arrows shot straight up in the air turn into barely visible missiles of death. A coded message from space creates different reactions from different people debates, dance festivals, gallery shows. Translated by Helge Dascher and Rob Aspinall.

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Guy Delisle expertly lays the groundwork for a cultural road map of contemporary Jerusalem, utilizing the classic stranger-in-a-strange-land point of view that made his other books, Pyongyang, Shenzhen, and Burma Chronicles, required reading for understanding what daily life is like in cities few are able to travel to. In Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City, Delisle explores the complexities of a city that represents so much to so many. He eloquently examines the impact of the conflict on the lives of people on both sides of the wall while drolly recounting the quotidian: checkpoints, traffic jams, and holidays.When observing the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim populations that call Jerusalem home, Delisle's drawn line is both sensitive and fair, assuming nothing and drawing everything. Jerusalem showcases once more Delisle's mastery of the travelogue.

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Encuadernación: rústicaColección: sillón orejeroCómo no hacer nada recopila las historias cortas del autor quebequés aparecidas en revistas como Lapin y Spoutnik, entre 1995 y 2002, cada una con un estilo y una técnica gráfica diferentes, y una mirada increíblemente lúcida sobre sus contemporáneos y sus defectos. Experimentales o intimistas, las historias de Guy Delisle, con salidas a veces desconcertantes, recuerdan el gozo de las ensoñaciones solitarias cuando se deambula al azar de los caminos sin ningún fin preciso. Hasta el momento Astiberri ha publicado en España Shenzhen, Pyongyang y Crónicas birmanas, las tres obras que Guy Delisle ha dedicado a sus estancias en diferentes países asiáticos.en los que confronta sus preocupaciones de occidental a las dificultades que atraviesan los habitantes de esos países. Tiene algo de fascinante el constatar la variedad de estilos de la que es capaz este artista extremadamente polivalente. ICI

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Ever wanted to know how to be awarded the Best Dad in the Whole World? Guy Delisle has all the answers for you in these light-hearted, entertaining tales of parental mishaps and practi--cal jokes gone wrong. Whether he's helping remove a pesky, wob--bly, but not quite loose tooth or trying to win at hide-and-seek, his antics will resonate with every parent who has ever wanted to give a sarcastic answer to a funny question from their kid. Even More Bad Parenting Advice marks Guy Delisle's second foray into the world of offering bad advice to parents, and a sec--ond opportunity to express the minor frustrations and many joys of parenting. Delisle's skilful hand at illustration and ironic way with words, which helped to popularize his travelogues about daily life in faraway places, are just as much the stars here as he or his children are. His sense of comic timing shines through in these simply told stories; with their lively flow, a change in facial expression or a few words can serve as the anecdote's punch line. Even More Bad Parenting Advice celebrates the reality that parenting isn't all first steps and gold-starred report cards; it's stinky diapers and never-ending drives to the grocery store too.

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Guy Delisle's work for a French animation studio requires him to oversee production at various Asian studios on the grim frontiers of free trade. His employer puts him up for months at a time in 'cold and soulless' hotel rooms where he suffers the usual deprivations of a man very far from home. After Pyongyang, his book about the strange society that is North Korea, Delisle turned his attention to Shenzhen, the cold, urban city in Southern China that is sealed off with electric fences and armed guards from the rest of the country. The result is another brilliant graphic novel - funny, scary, utterly original and illuminating.

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Famously referred to as part of the 'Axis-of-Evil', North Korea remains one of the most secretive and mysterious nations in the world today. A series of manmade and natural catastrophes have also left it one of the poorest. When the fortress-like country recently opened the door a crack to foreign investment, cartoonist Guy Delisle found himself in its capital Pyongyang on a work visa for a French film animation company, becoming one of the few Westerners to witness current conditions in the surreal showcase city. Armed with a smuggled radio and a copy of 1984, Delisle could only explore Pyongyang and its countryside while chaperoned by his translator and a guide. But among the statues, portraits and propaganda of leaders Kim Il-Sung and his son Kim Jong-Il - the world's only Communist dynasty - Delisle was able to observe more than was intended of the culture and lives of the few North Koreans he encountered. His astute and wry musings on life in the austere and grim regime form the basis of this remarkable graphic novel. Pyongyang is an informative, personal and accessible look at an enigmatic country.

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