Pyongyang by Guy Delisle

Pyongyang by Guy Delisle. Published by Drawn and Quarterly
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How much plot does a story need. Obviously, a story does not need any plot to exist. A writer or artist could just type some words onto a page and claim it is some kind of da-da experiment. It is a story, albeit an unreadable story. So how much plot does a story need to thrive. Pyongyang reqired only the simplest of plots. An animator goes to North Korea to supervise some animation. Book opens with the animator flying into North Korea. It ends with him leaving. Yet most of the book is not even concerned with the animation. Guy Delisle fills the book with details about North Korea. Plot acts as the skeleton for the true flesh of the story. The details form muscle, skin, and the sexy curves of the story. I began to read and soon find myself dancing with the story. I was slow dancing before I even realized it.
-Jason Arcand
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