Burma Chronicles is the third travelogue by Guy Delisle, a French-Canadian animator whose first two books Shenzen and Pyongyang, were accounts of his work as an animation supervisor for studios in China and North Korea. This time he accompanies his wife, who works for Doctors Without Borders, to Burma (also know as Myanmar) with their new baby in tow. Delisle has a keen eye for the absurd details of life in foreign countries and the instances in which a dictatorship influences daily living. Being an animator he is a superb storyteller, his drawing style is simple and at the same time wonderfully detailed. All three of the travelogues are beautiful displays of the world outside our sheltered American existence. Burma Chronicles is my new favorite, but each is worth its weight in ink-soaked tree pulp. Also by Delisle are two collections of wordless stories (Albert and Aline) that run the gamut from “Hey, that’s clever,” to, “This guy has major issues he needs to deal with!” This is an author that has impressed me so much, that I will purchase anything he puts out, sight unseen. I can’t wait for his adaptation of the slash fiction “Gilmore Girls in Space”.