Guy Delisle is known as a Canadian comic book author and animator.
He documented his experiences working as an animator in China (Shenzhen [2000]) and North Korea (Pyongyang [2003]) via comics. He also documented his experiences traveling in Myanmar/Burma (Burma Chronicles [2007]) and most recently, Israel (Chronicles of Jerusalem [2011]). Written originally in French, his books have been translated into many languages, including English, Polish, Spanish, Finnish, and Czech, and have been best sellers in France.
It seems as if he writes and draws and photographs about seemingly everything - the weather, the city, the politics, the culture, interesting objects, and his own presence and work, so the end result is a part-autobiographical, part-travel-journal, and part-anthropological-ethnography.
While Delisle is at location, he sketches and writes in his journals and takes photos when he can to document exact structures or objects or experiences. Though he is in "dangerous" areas, he documents the happiness of the people as it exists - the daily life, not the war or politically-torn states.
Guy Delisle is inspired by the comics he attains and artists from the places he is documenting. The following comic is from Burma:
love the expression of documentation through graphic novels here-
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