I can’t access live updates right now, but here’s the latest I can share about Guy Delisle from reliable sources up to early 2026.
- Recent work: Delisle’s book Hostage (Drawn & Quarterly) has continued to receive attention for its in-depth account of a 1997 kidnapping involving a Doctors Without Borders worker. It’s been highlighted in profiles and interviews around its publication and subsequent tours.[3][5]
- Notable reception: Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City and Pyongyang remain among his most acclaimed titles; Jerusalem won an Angoulême prize and is frequently cited in contemporary discussions of his career.[2][5][6]
- Public appearances: In 2025–2026, Delisle engaged in talks and readings, including conversations tied to recent releases and touring in North America, with coverage noting his ongoing interest in blending reportage and memoir through graphic novels.[4][3]
If you’d like, I can look up the very latest articles and confirm current book tour dates or new releases and summarize them with citations.
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Canadian cartoonist Guy Delisle’s latest effort…
truthout.orgIt’s an approach that serves him well in his latest release, *Hostage*, an exhaustive account of the 1997 kidnapping of a young Doctors Without Borders employee by Chechen separatists. As the writer Sarah Glidden puts it in her back-cover blurb: “A book about a man chained to a radiator should not be exhilarating, but … my heart was racing by the end.” It’s true: pages and pages of nearly-identical-looking panels somehow ends with a surge of blood-pumping adrenaline. … Then other work got in...
drawnandquarterly.comDelisle’s latest book is “Jerusalem: Chronicles From the Holy City,” published by Drawn & Quarterly. Earlier this year, the book received the Fauve d’Or or Best Comic Book Award at the prestigious Angouleme Comic Festival. Following a year that Delisle spent in the city with his wife and two children, the book doesn’t avoid politics, but is more concerned with everyday life in the city. The challenges of getting from one side of the city to another, dealing with life abroad with two young...
drawnandquarterly.comGuy Delisle is best known for his travelogues about life in faraway countries, Burma Chronicles, Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City, Pyongyang, and Shenzhen.
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www.hkac.org.hkEvery year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. This “Festival Focus” for 2018 is Guy Delisle, a Canadian animator and comics artist. In 1994, Guy made his first short, Trois petits chats, which piqued fellow filmmaker Michael Dudok de Wit’s interest. Dudok de Wit asked Delisle to
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