Still with cartoons on the brain, and just as I sat down to write about Guy Delisle’s wonderful travelogue/comix Burma Chronicles, I saw that Buddhist sub- and pop-culture blogger The Worst Horse just did… so let’s hear from the Horse instead (thanks, Rod):
“When it comes to comix, twenty bucks had better go a long way. Well, Guy Delisle’s Burma Chronicles goes a long way indeed. For some of us, this lovingly-made hardcover might be the closest we ever get to taking a trip to Burma (notoriously a.k.a. Myanmar). Delisle has written and illustrated two previous graphic accounts of trips to Asia: Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, and Shenzhen: A Travelogue in China. In Burma Chronicles we see Delisle’s drawing and storytelling get even more refined, and at the same time, more personal…”
Continue reading at The Worst Horse!