“Parents life”. In this section, a personality evokes the joys and setbacks of his daily life with children. This daily life, the comic book Guy Delisle staged it in his albums. He recounts the change in subsidiary relations over the years.
words collected by Frédéric Potet
We must recognize Guy Delisle a certain expertise in parenting. His albums speak for him. The Quebec comic book author was mainly known thanks to two autobiographical works – Burmese chronicles (Delcourt, 2007) and Chronicles of Jerusalem (Delcourt, 2011, Prize for the best album in Angoulême 2012) – in which we see To take care of her young children in regions where his wife, an employee at Doctors Without Borders, had been sent on a mission. Confronted with the realities of the “housewife job”, the designer -papa hen had no less drawn from this experience of the documented (and commented) stories on the daily life of the countries visited and on their situation in the world – a kind of geopolitics of the stroller.
Back in France, Guy Delisle had then chained with the guide to the bad father (Delcourt, four volumes, 2013-2018), a series of gags on the difficulty of raising his children without derogating from the main educational principles. If his family, of children, are now great (19 and 16 years old), the Canadian has not forgotten anything about the small renunciations and the great guilts of paternity. He has just lent his assistance to the Monsters Dungeon Monsters of Lewis Trondheim and Joann Sfar by drawing his sixteenth volume, somewhere else (Delcourt, 48 pages, 11.95 euros).
the first time you You are felt father…
In front of the town hall municipal employee for the declaration of birth. It is not very glorious, but it is the first time that, in front of a foreigner, I explained that I had just been father of a child.
Have you ever cried in front of your Children?
Yes, several times. When we watch sad films together, I cry quite easily. The last time, it had to be ahead of Kramer against Kramer (1979). There were also the moments when I learned of my father’s death and that of my mother. It seems quite natural to not hide these great moments of sadness. Tears too, it is shared.
the worst thing you have said to your child …
“Come on, good night, bouboule”, when he had just told me that he wanted to do a diet. I had explained to him that at his age, it was normal to still have a round belly and that it should not be done with that. Just after this pretty reassuring speech, I couldn’t help but send it to bed with a joke. I think he understood the joke, finally, I hope …
the worst thing your child has told you …
“In any case, I prefer mom!”, Said my daughter to me. She wanted to know who I preferred between her brother and her. I reassure her by telling her that we, the parents, are endowed with infinite love and that we love our children in a perfectly equal way. After listening to my words, she takes this sentence with the cute smiles.
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