Gripping Comics Memoir 'Hostage' Puts You In The Room Where Nothing Happens
Cartoonist Guy Delisle departs from the first-person travelogue format which has won him acclaim to chronicle the true story of a man kidnapped and detained for months in the Caucasus region in 1997.
"It was in the early morning hours of July 2 that I was kidnapped."
On the opening page of Guy Delisle's Hostage, those words hang in a slate-gray night sky, above a building in a nondescript neighborhood of what we soon learn is a small town west of Chechnya.
That same, muted grayscale color-scheme will stay with us throughout the book, because the man imparting those words — Christophe André,'s 432 pages in darkness.
