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Burma Chronicles
Burma Chronicles
Jun 18, 2025 2:57 PM

Author:Guy Delisle

Burma Chronicles

Guy Delisle's newest travelogue revolves around a year spent in Burma (also known as Myanmar) with his wife and son. Burma is notorious for its use of concealment and isolation as social control: where scissor-wielding censors monitor the papers, the de facto leader of the opposition has been under decade-long house arrest, insurgent-controlled regions are effectively cut off from the world, and rumour is the most reliable source of current information.

An impressive and moving work of comics journalism from the author of Pyongyang and Shenzen.

Reviews

It’s insightful and is able to carry the weight of Burma’s troublesome history, enabling the reader to learn about the real lives of Burmese people, through a mix of current affairs and, surprisingly considering the subject, humour.

—— Emma Henderson , Independent

Simply put, Burma Chronicles is the most enlightening and insightful book on Burma in years... If you must visit Burma while it remains under the rule of the iniquitous junta, do so with the express intention of bearing witness to the tragedy and suffering of its people. Better still, stay away, and visit it instead through the pages of this heartbreaking, educational and insightful comic masterpiece

—— Guardian

As a counterpoint to the often inaccessible news stories about the country, this is an excellent portrait of a little-understood land, and makes for a deeply original and fascinating piece of travel writing

—— Daily Telegraph

Hilarious and touching

—— Dazed

This book is more fun than most holidays and more enlightening than a hundred blogs by self-appointed experience censors

—— Time Out

As sharp as Taylor Swift's marketing team, Berry slices through the info-celeb news nexus. Bloody funny.

—— Denise Mina

Hannah Berry’s new graphic novel Livestock is furious and funny, angry and amused by its own anger. It’s a future vision of a time when politics and celebrity are fused even more than they are today, when political spin is even more amoral and embedded than it is now.

—— Teddy Jamieson , Herald Scotland

This sharp satire, almost a little too on the nose by the time of publication, takes a populace easily distracted by celebrity culture to its logical extreme… With the understated, chilling final images, this book left me alternating between being entertained and disquieted...buy this now while it can still be described as a work of fiction.

—— Pete Redrup , Quietus

Hannah Berry’s stunning artwork is painstakingly meticulous and her narratives are always thought-provoking and playful.

—— Cath Tate and Nicola Street , i

Delisle’s artwork is just stunning and accompanies the tale brilliantly.

—— Dog Eared Discs

Delisle’s genius lies in his ability to simplify convoluted international situations and make them vividly relatable to the reader.

—— Mr. Hyde

Radtke's life – and the way she beautifully elevates her deeply personal experiences into universal lessons – makes for brilliant, compelling, unforgettable art.

—— Bustle

Kristen Radtke leads us through a bleak and beautifully crafted story of heart and heartbreak – creation, connection, decay, and loss. Imagine Wanting Only This is challenging and inspiring.

—— Ellen Forney, New York Times bestselling author of MARBLES

Writer, illustrator, and editor Radtke’s graphic memoir does something difficult within just a few minimally designed, emotional pages: she transforms the over-studied experience of being a talented artist stuck in that yearning gulf between college’s purpose and life’s demands into something unique and thuddingly real.

—— Publishers Weekly
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