Hostage

"Hostage shows what it's like to be held captive ... Delisle brings readers into the room with the hostage and, more importantly, into his state of mind."--The Atlantic

"[Hostage is] an indelible portrait of an ordinary person facing a frightening ordeal."--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

"The location captured [in Hostage] is less Andre's grim little room than his mind... Delisle transmute[s] tedium into compelling suspense."--The New York Times

"The account of Andre's experience... would be powerful enough, if depicted in prose alone. But Hostage is a comic, and it's Delisle's art -- his character design, his use of page and panel layout to underscore the mind-numbing sameness of solitary confinement while controlling the story's mood and pacing -- that makes us feel Andre's plight so deeply."--Glen Weldon, NPR

"This true story of a man's kidnapping in Chechnya confirms Guy Delisle's position as one of the greatest modern cartoonists."--Rachel Cooke, The Guardian

"Harrowing and beautiful... I've felt haunted by the book since I finished it."--John Warner, Chicago Tribune

"Delisle's new book, Hostage, is his best since Pyongyang... In its beat-by-beat, day-by-day scope, is ultimately a travelogue about the power of imagination."--Hillary Chute, New York Review of Books

"In muted grays, Andre's capture is depicted as both terrifying and monotonous at once. The terror of loneliness is present in every frame--the cells, tightly centered on Andre, claustrophobia-inducing in their own right."--Kevin Nguyen, GQ

"The gutters of a comic have never felt more like those prison bars than they do in Hostage. Still, Delisle's humane approach keeps this from become a trip to the zoo; he makes you not just see, but feel Andre's anguish."--Mark Peters, Salon

"A modern master of the travelogue... [returns] with a surge of blood-pumping adrenaline."--Amos Barshad, The Fader

"Guy Delisle conveys great, slow-burning tension in this sublime account of what Christophe Andre endured as a hostage in Chechnya. Delisle's controlled handling of claustrophobic physical and mental spaces - and the rhythm he generates - is the work of a patient master."--Joe Sacco, author of Palestine

"A book about a man trapped in the corner of a room should not be exhilarating, but somehow Delisle has managed to create just that. He takes us through Christophe Andre's narrative of his time spent as a prisoner with an attention to detail that makes you feel like you're right there with him, chained to a radiator, counting the days to keep yourself from losing your mind. My heart was racing by the end."--Sarah Glidden, author of Rolling Blackouts