Pyongyang

This wasn't the first time I'd read this comic. I don't recall the first time, honestly, but I remember loving it then. Rereading it now, older, it still has the same effect on me, only I feel it more. As I've said in other responses to graphic memoirs, I wish I could illustrate my stories instead of write them. I know some people dont like graphic novels and memoirs, they feel their imaginations are being force-fed; they'd rather imagine the scene themselves, not be told what itl ooked like. But in cases like Pyongyang, and The Dead of Winter, its more an illustrated guide to the mind of the author. Instead of having to use so many words to portray the unearthliness of North Korea and its culture, Delisle shows you the eerie subway, the empty restaurant, the stoic guides, the wide empty boulevards of the city. Since, as Americans, we couldn't possibly imagine Communist stuff. Seriously.