Factory Summers - Couverture rigide

Guy, Delisle

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 177046459X ISBN 13 : 9781770464599

Editeur : Drawn and Quarterly, 2021

Synopsis

The legendary cartoonist aims his pen and paper towards his high school summer job. For three summers beginning when he was 16, cartoonist Guy Delisle worked at a pulp and paper factory in Quebec City. Factory Summers chronicles the daily rhythms of life in the mill, and the twelve-hour shifts he spent in a hot, noisy building filled with arcane machinery. Delisle takes his noted outsider perspective and applies it domestically, this time as a boy amongst men through the universal rite of passage of the summer job. Even as a teenager, Delisle s keen eye for hypocrisy highlights the tensions of class and the rampant sexism an all-male workplace permits. As the paper industry slowly begins to move overseas, Guy works the floor doing physically strenuous tasks. He is one of the few young people on site, and furthermore gets the job because of his father s connections, a fact which rightfully earns him disdain from the lifers. Guy s father spends his whole working life in the white-collar offices above the fray of the machinery, scheduled from 9 to 5 instead of the rigorous 12-hour shifts of the unionized labor. Guy and his dad aren t close, and Guy s witnessing of the workplace politics and toxic masculinity leaves him reconciling whether the job was the reason for his dad s unhappiness. On his days off, Guy finds refuge in art, a world far beyond the factory floor. Delisle shows himself rediscovering comics at the public library, and preparing for animation school only to be told on the first day, There are no jobs in animation. Eager to pursue a job he enjoys and to avoid a career of unhappiness, Guy throws caution to the wind.

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À propos de l?auteur

Born in Quebec City, Canada, in 1966, Guy Delisle now lives in the south of France with his wife and two children. Delisle spent ten years working in animation and is best known for his travelogues about life in faraway countries. He is the author of numerous graphic novels and travelogues, including Hostage, Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City, and Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea. In 2012, Delisle was awarded the Prize for Best Album for the French edition of Jerusalem at the Angouleme International Comics Festival.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Drawn and Quarterly
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 177046459X
• ISBN 13: 9781770464599
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 156
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• Personne responsable: non disponible