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Factory Summers by Guy Delisle
4.5
adventurous funny informative inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

 Guy Delisle's memoir of a teenager working in a Quebec City paper mill during the 1980s. I really enjoyed the details in practically every frame. I liked the details about growing up and living in Quebec. Gives an indirect hint about how Delisle ended up supervising animation in North Korea (which he wrote about in Pyongyang). I would kind of like to read this again in the original French. I don't really know French, but it would be fun (and manageable with this book) to see the dialogue in the original language. I should check out the Franco-Belgian comics artists Delisle name-drops in the part about the library that opened near his house (Tardi, Moebius, Comes, Hugo Pratt, Munoz, Rochette, Lauzier, Gotlib).