Shenzhen

Guy Delisle, the celebrated travelogue cartoonist, brings his signature deadpan observational style to Shenzhen, a graphic novel (published by Kultura Gniewu in 2021) that chronicles his time as an animator in the Chinese tech hub. Through meticulous, unglamorous linework, Delisle captures the city's surreal blend of breakneck development and bureaucratic absurdity, offering a quietly incisive outsider's portrait of daily life in a global manufacturing capital. This series distills his acclaimed travel memoir into a single, self-contained volume, marking a key entry in his body of work that helped define the modern travelogue comic.