Show Comments Box. From ReadComicOnline. Copyrights and trademarks for the comic, and other promotional materials are held by their respective owners and their use is allowed under the fair use clause of the Copyright Law. Also, there is great informative value in seeing the Myanmar reality through the eyes of a westerner, with a focus on the visual aspects. Books by Guy Delisle. I have read exactly two graphic novels so far -Persepolis and this.
See Burmese chronicles for the royal chronicles of Burma Myanmar. Guys situation and other non-profit organisations deal with a lot of red-tape and they are generally not that well off. The scenario here has less inherent drama, because the situation is less politically dire, even though matters of life and death are closer at hand his wife works for Doctors Without Borders, or something like it.
The distinctly non-judgemental humorous tone and superb sketches helped tremendously. I would definitely be re-reading this as I am sure many gems got missed on the first read. Loved each and every part of this book. I will definitely recommend this book to sequential art, graphic novels lovers. Your Rating:. Your Comment:. A villager comes running up to them twice, to bring an umbrella each for them. He then invites them back to his house to warm up and eat something. Someone who speaks English is found to interpret.
Delisle explains that a government worker also has to be present to report on their conversations. In all this, Delilsle fails to note the selfless compassion shown by 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. In fact, looking at the drawings in Delisle's crude but moderately effective style , it is clear that their host never used an umbrella himself. You know what's 'weird' Delisle?
The fact that you take this incredible act of gallantry totally for granted. View all 9 comments. Jul 04, B Schrodinger rated it really liked it Shelves: biography-autobiography , geography , graphic-novels. Burma Chronicles is an autobiographical account of a family who stayed in Burma for one year. The author is married to a worker for Doctors Without Borders and their family gets assigned to work in Burma for one year. While his wife makes trips into the less populated and underprivileged areas of the country, Guy is left back in the city with his very young son and too much time on his hands.
He uses this time to do his cartooning, explore the city and get to know the culture a bit more. The book Burma Chronicles is an autobiographical account of a family who stayed in Burma for one year. The book is fascinating because of the lack of message. Guy isn't here to spout anti-Burmese government rhetoric, nor is he making a statement about colonialism, nor any other.
It's just simply his observations and a normal guy living in a foreign country saying "Hey look at this. You can't take from Guy's observations whatever you want. And being about a country that many of us wouldn't visit, Guy's book gives us a unique insight into a country and people we only hear about vaguely in modern history books and sometimes in the news in reference to their government.
The descriptions and drawings are very simple and minimal, but they did make me feel like I was there. Another fascinating aspect of the book looked at foreigners in the country and how they live. Guys situation and other non-profit organisations deal with a lot of red-tape and they are generally not that well off. But while he is in Burma he connects with other foreign people working for multinationals who live like kings. These people live in mini-estates with guards, and have their own clubs and compounds which are beautifully maintained.
Guy is only human and loves being invited to these places, but being a stay at home dad and being invited to a play date with the wives of rich oil workers proves to be a bit awkward. I really enjoyed this work and I'm going to seek out his others. Apparently he and his wife spent time in North Korea. I'd recommend this to anyone who is a fan of the non-super hero graphic novel, and I'd encourage anyone who likes travelogues or finding out about different cultures to check it out.
View all 6 comments. Dec 21, Kaung Myat Han rated it really liked it Shelves: graphic-novels-manga , humour-jokes-entertainment , french. Being a Burmese myself, I am always more than willing to lend my pair of ears to what the expatriates have to say about my country, Burma. Of course, this book immediately caught my eye while I was browsing the French section at Kinokuniya Bookstore.
It turned out to be so entertaining and gripping that I managed to finish it right at the aisle there within like forty minutes or something, standing and flipping the pages and suppressing my little chuckles. This little French graphic novel reads Being a Burmese myself, I am always more than willing to lend my pair of ears to what the expatriates have to say about my country, Burma.
With cool illustrations, quirky and satirical humor targeting the military regime this book was published in , prior to the release of the democracy beacon, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and all the little annoying things such as frequent electricity black-outs and even the hot weather of Yangon etc, 'Burma Chronicles' is an amazing read which will delight you even though it's not about delightful pleasant stuffs as you will learn about the brutal and oppressive activities of the military regime.
Highly recommended. Oct 06, Shankar rated it it was amazing. I always thought Burma was a small agrarian economy somewhere in East Asia. Dependent on rice and agriculture and subject to monsoons. Maybe it was the medium of the book - graphic novel - or it was the easy way in which the author describes his experiences with Medicins Sans Frontiers in the country that got me.
The story lays bare the extreme censorship of freedom including those of human rights. Women who worked in the mines were subject to vaginal searches in unsanitary conditions leading to infections. The country remains as dark the Govt chooses not to open it up endangering the source to corrupt spoils of the land. Our country has had a great trading relationship with Moulmein. My own forefathers had visited Rangoon and had business interests in teak and other goods.
Our state has many such examples of quality of natural resources in this abundant country. Such a pity that it is held to ransom for other interests. Guy Delisle has created quite a voluminous graphic novel given the subject. A great piece of work if you are considering Burma in your travel plans.
Or even otherwise just to know how dark it is their for its Stoic citizens. Amazing how many such countries exist with so much suffering. View all 4 comments. Jul 13, Diane rated it really liked it Shelves: travelogues , memoirs , comics , graphic-novels. I like it when travel writers show me a country that I'll probably never see in my lifetime. Burma, also known as Myanmar, has been under military control since a coup in , and it has a reputation of being one of the worst dictatorships on the planet.
In , President George W. Guy Delisle and his family spent a year living in Burma while his wife worked for Doctors Without Borders I like it when travel writers show me a country that I'll probably never see in my lifetime. Guy Delisle and his family spent a year living in Burma while his wife worked for Doctors Without Borders.
This graphic novel is similar to his other travelogues I've read, Pyongyang and Jerusalem , in that he draws his day-to-day life and his experiences in the region. As a Westerner who doesn't speak the native language, his main source of social contact comes from other expatriates, mostly people who work for nonprofit agencies.
Since Guy receives limited outside information -- government censors strictly control the news -- there's an amusing section when he first hears a World Health Organization employee talking about bird flu and he spends a month panicking about a potential epidemic.
His biggest fear is if he and his family were to be quarantined in Burma and wouldn't be allowed to return home to France. 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. One of the charms of Delisle's comics are the frames where it's just him looking puzzled and not saying anything.
Fortunately, there was no outbreak during their visit. Since Guy is an animator, he seeks out other graphic artists whenever he visits a new country. In this book and the other two I've read, there are nice stories of him meeting cartoonists and sharing their work. A particularly moving scene is when he travels to meet an elderly Burmese artist and reverently looks at the original pages of his comic published in , which had inspired a generation of illustrators.
Sadly, the political situation changes and the government makes it more difficult for foreign nonprofit agencies to work there. There is an interesting section where a Doctors Without Borders administrator explains to Guy why they are deciding to leave Burma: Because the government won't allow them access to the remote Burmese citizens who need the most medical attention, and if they only operate in the capital city, then they're essentially propping up the regime.
Toward the end of their stay in Burma, Guy attends a meditation retreat at a temple and tries to focus his awareness: "After 42 hours of meditation in 3 days, I feel more peaceful than ever before, but also very alert.
How long can this state of grace last? It could be a hard landing. Jun 21, Trish rated it really liked it Shelves: asia , foreign-affairs , memoir , family , graphic-novels , art , funny , nonfiction. The heat. I'd always wondered about it. Delisle said his level of tolerance improved over the year he stayed there, so that he could stand up to 90degF before turning on the air conditioner, while when he'd arrived, 80degF was his limit.
One can actually use this as a window into the work of the organization as well as into the country. All of Delisle's graphic memoirs are interesting.
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