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Monday, January 15, 2007
Delisle in Ottawa Citizen
:: Posted by Bryan @ 1/15/2007 03:56:00 AM Guy Delisle is profiled in an Ottawa Citizen article about the growth of graphic novels that also quotes Chris Butcher and includes the top ten 2006 GNs as chosen by "the staff of The Beguiling":
When cartoonist Guy Delisle first published his graphic novel Shenzhen: A Travelogue From China in France six years ago, he was thrilled with initial sales. His account of life in a monotonously gritty, Chinese city sold just 2,000 copies.
At the time, he says, his work was considered relatively "under-ground" and was distributed by what was then a small French publishing house.
Last September, Delisle released an English-language version of Shenzhen. This time around, the book earned at least two nods from reviewers at The New York Times.
It's a big change for a cartoonist like Delisle who couldn't always find a market for comics that didn't include superheroes and bright splashes of colour.
"Cartoonists are now doing what they always dreamed of doing when they were young but there wasn't anyplace to publish (these books)," said the Quebec-born, France-based Delisle, about the current appetite for graphic novels.
Labels: graphic novels, news, Quebec
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