Rating: 2/5
Guy Delisle makes an interesting choice chronicling his time spent in North Korea. He worked there for a French animation study producing cartoons. The book details his view of life in North Korea during that short period of time.
The art is minimalistic, drawn in black and white. This works for the subject matter. I would have liked to have seen something more done with the book though.
What bugged me about this book is that Delisle has a very clear bias against North Korea. Maybe he isn't off the mark with that bias, but it makes it hard to read because he spends a lot of the book attacking the people that live there without really trying to understand them.
He makes it clear how controlling the regime is from the very beginning. That theme takes over the entire 176 pages. There are occasional breaks, but they are still punctuated by that idea. To me, he should have gone deeper into the subject. Sure that would have been a harder book to write for any number of reasons. It would have been more interesting though.
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