Using only shades of blue-gray, white, and black, Delisle’s panels follow Andre from the beginning to the end of his ordeal. He uses it well but moves beyond mere facts to create a tour de force exploration of resilience. Having recorded interviews with Andre, Delisle has firsthand information with which to work. Delisle manages to get inside Andre’s mind and plumb his soul to provide the reader with a visceral experience of a most frightening and disorienting captivity.
His story might well have been forgotten but for Guy Delisle’s extraordinary graphic talent. 432 pages.Ĭhristophe Andre was working as a Médecins Sans Frontières administrator in Ingushetia, just west of Chechnya, when he was kidnapped and held for 111 days. Thoughtful, intense, and moving, Hostage takes a profound look at what drives our will to survive in the darkest of moments.Montreal.
Working in a pared down style with muted colour washes, Delisle conveys the psychological effects of solitary confinement, compelling us to ask ourselves some difficult questions regarding the repercussions of negotiating with kidnappers and what it really means to be free. Marking a departure from the author's celebrated first-person travelogues, Delisle tells the story through the perspective of the titular captive, who strives to keep his mind alert as desperation starts to set in. Close to twenty years later, award-winning cartoonist Guy Delisle ( Pyongyang, Jerusalem, Shenzhen, Burma Chronicles) recounts André's harrowing experience in Hostage, a book that attests to the power of one man's determination in the face of a hopeless situation. For three months, André was kept handcuffed in solitary confinement, with little to survive on and almost no contact with the outside world. In the middle of the night in 1997, Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe André was kidnapped by armed men and taken away to an unknown destination in the Caucasus region. How does one survive when all hope is lost?
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