Here’s the latest I can share based on current public reporting:
- Guy Delisle’s recent work centers on Hostage (Drawn & Quarterly, 2020s), which recounts a kidnapping case from the late 1990s and has been featured in interviews and profiles around its release; coverage highlights its intense, tightly paced storytelling and Delisle’s documentary approach.[2][3]
- In early 2026, profiles and event listings note Delisle continuing to promote Hostage and related projects, with appearances and talks connected to his body of travelogues and memoir-style comics; outlets also discuss reception at major festivals and bookstores.[3][5]
- Past reporting (including 2022–2024) emphasizes Delisle’s shift from long-form travelogues to projects drawn from challenging real-life experiences, such as hostage narratives, while still exploring everyday life in places he has visited.[4][5]
If you’d like, I can search for the very latest articles or pull up specific recent interviews or event appearances and summarize them with citations. Please tell me your preferred region or language for sources (e.g., English-language outlets, French-language sources, or local Prague-based event coverage).
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www.hkac.org.hkCanadian 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.comEvery 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
www.comicartfestival.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...
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www.pastemagazine.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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