Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea

In Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, cartoonist Guy Delisle documents his two-month stay in the North Korean capital as a travelogue of tightly controlled daily life. Published by Jonathan Cape in 2006, this single-volume graphic novel captures the surreal, bureaucratic, and eerily vacant atmosphere of a city designed for propaganda. Delisle’s deadpan, observational style—honed in his other travel comics—makes this a quietly unsettling and essential work of graphic journalism.