Over the next few days, Delisle explores the streets of Beit Hanina, the Palestinian neighbourhood in East Jerusalem that he will call home. Médecins sans frontières, and two young kids in tow. The book begins in August, 2008, as Delisle arrives in Jerusalem late at night with his wife, who is there on a posting with Jerusalem is not only an extremely handsome book (its size and heft masterfully packaged, as always, by Montreal's Drawn & Quarterly), but it also presents Delisle – who has received his knocks in the past for his handling of social and political issues – at his career best. Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City, which recounts a year that Delisle and his family spent living in the ancient Middle Eastern city, is not only his biggest book and his first in colour, but it also won the Best Comic Album prize (the Fauve d'Or) at this year's International Comics Festival in Angoulême, France, making him the first Canadian to win the prestigious honour. That book, the English-language version of which is out this month, drops anchor amid what is easily the biggest fanfare for any Delisle work to date. To his credit, Delisle is not afraid to point this fact out in the panels of his own book. Only a clueless bureaucrat could mistake the two. Sacco is synonymous with unflinching comics reportage Delisle conjures up the image of a bumbling, fish-out-of-water everyman character, more Woody Allen than Bob Woodward. Though the two cartoonists may occasionally tread the same geographical ground, their comics really couldn't be any more different. cartoonist/journalist who is known for his rigorously researched comics from hot spots such as Palestine, Bosnia and the Gaza Strip. Over the course of three well-received graphic works, the cartoonist and former animator has fostered a unique voice as a chronicler of the quotidian from inside some of the most sequestered states on Earth. It's precisely this kind of moment – part in-joke, part self-deprecating jab – that fuels much of the appeal (and charm) of the Canadian cartoonist's work.ĭelisle, a Quebec City native who calls the south of France home, is internationally known for his slice-of-life dispatches from China, North Korea and Burma, where he has spent time living and working during the past decade.
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