Guy Delisle
Guy Delisle - Factory Summers - Hardcover
Guy Delisle - Factory Summers - Hardcover
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Description: The legendary cartoonist aims his pen and paper toward his high school summer job For three summers beginning when he was 16, cartoonist Guy Delisle worked at a pulp and paper factory in Quebec City. Factory Summers chronicles the daily rhythms of life in the mill and the twelve hour shifts he spent in a hot noisy building filled with arcane machinery. Delisle takes his noted outsider perspective and applies it domestically this time as a boy amongst men through the universal rite of passage of the summer job. Even as a teenager Delisle's keen eye for hypocrisy highlights the tensions of class and the rampant sexism an all - male workplace permits. Guy works the floor doing physically strenuous tasks. He is one of the few young people on site and furthermore gets the job through his father's connections a fact which rightfully earns him disdain from the lifers. Guy's dad spends his whole career in the white collar offices working 9 to 5 instead of the rigorous 12 - hour shifts of the unionized labor. Guy and his dad aren t close and Factory Summers leaves Delisle reconciling whether the job led to his dad's aloofness and unhappiness. On his days off Guy finds refuge in art a world far beyond the factory floor. Delisle shows himself rediscovering comics at the public library and preparing for animation school only to be told on the first day There are no jobs in animation. Eager to pursue a job he enjoys Guy throws caution to the wind.
Title: Factory Summers
Author(s): Guy Delisle
Publisher: Drawn And Quarterly
Barcode: 9781770464599
Pages: 156 Pages, 2-Color Illustrations Throughout
Publication Date: 6/15/2021
Category: Graphic Novels: Literary & Memoirs
Description: The legendary cartoonist aims his pen and paper toward his high school summer job For three summers beginning when he was 16, cartoonist Guy Delisle worked at a pulp and paper factory in Quebec City. Factory Summers chronicles the daily rhythms of life in the mill and the twelve hour shifts he spent in a hot noisy building filled with arcane machinery. Delisle takes his noted outsider perspective and applies it domestically this time as a boy amongst men through the universal rite of passage of the summer job. Even as a teenager Delisle's keen eye for hypocrisy highlights the tensions of class and the rampant sexism an all - male workplace permits. Guy works the floor doing physically strenuous tasks. He is one of the few young people on site and furthermore gets the job through his father's connections a fact which rightfully earns him disdain from the lifers. Guy's dad spends his whole career in the white collar offices working 9 to 5 instead of the rigorous 12 - hour shifts of the unionized labor. Guy and his dad aren t close and Factory Summers leaves Delisle reconciling whether the job led to his dad's aloofness and unhappiness. On his days off Guy finds refuge in art a world far beyond the factory floor. Delisle shows himself rediscovering comics at the public library and preparing for animation school only to be told on the first day There are no jobs in animation. Eager to pursue a job he enjoys Guy throws caution to the wind.
Title: Factory Summers
Author(s): Guy Delisle
Publisher: Drawn And Quarterly
Barcode: 9781770464599
Pages: 156 Pages, 2-Color Illustrations Throughout
Publication Date: 6/15/2021
Category: Graphic Novels: Literary & Memoirs
