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The oeuvre of the graphic novel author Guy Delisle provides a unique window into the relationship between work and personal life in graphic novel creation and in cultural work more generally. In two books set in two non-Western countries, Chroniques de Jérusalem (2011) and Chroniques Birmanes (2007), Delisle considers his experiences as an expat father and graphic novelist, while at the same time depicting daily life and political realities in fraught locations. In another series, Le Guide du Mauvais Père (2013–15), he focuses more specifically on fatherhood.
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All translations are my own except in the case of “Burma Chronicles,” for which I refer to the English translation (Delisle 2008).
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The Fauve d’Or is the prize for best album at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. Such prizes can be viewed as classic illustrations of the role symbolic capital plays in legitimating the standing of a cultural producer within his or her field (Bourdieu 1986).
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Davidson, R. (2016). Drawing Fatherhood: The Working Father Figure in the Autobiographical Graphic Novels of Guy Delisle. In: Brienza, C., Johnston, P. (eds) Cultures of Comics Work. Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55090-3_9
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