Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea

Guy Delisle’s Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea (2005–present, Drawn & Quarterly) is a single-volume travelogue that documents the author’s two-month stay in the isolated capital while working as an animator. Through Delisle’s deadpan, minimalist linework and wry observations, the comic explores the surreal, tightly controlled reality of daily life under the regime. Rendered in English by translator Helge Dascher, the book stands as a quietly essential work of comics journalism, offering an intimate, human-scaled glimpse into a place often reduced to headlines.