Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China
Cover of the English-language edition | |
| Author | Guy Delisle |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Guy Delisle |
| Language | French, English |
| Genre | Graphic novel, Memoir |
| Published | 2000 (Drawn & Quarterly) |
| Media type | Print (hardcover, paperback) |
| ISBN | 0-224-07991-3 |
Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China is a comic book written by the Canadian Québécois author Guy Delisle. It documents Delisle's three-month deployment in December 1997 to Shenzhen, a big city developed by the People's Republic of China near Hong Kong. In the city, he acts as the liaison between Dupuis, a Belgian animation production company and a Chinese studio, where Chinese animators draw child-oriented films (Papyrus) from the layout phase taking the French storyboards as a guide.
He struggles with boredom, the difficulties of outsourcing and the culture shock of a Westerner in this profit-oriented Chinese city. The book has 145 pages. Some of the frames are drawn by Chinese artists and by a friend of Delisle's.