Questa artista canadese è rinomata per le sue opere autobiografiche, che si addentrano nelle crude realtà della vita quotidiana con uno stile visivo distintivo. Le sue creazioni esplorano spesso temi di identità, femminilità e il proprio posto nel mondo dell'arte. Abbraccia un approccio sperimentale alla forma del fumetto, avventurandosi senza paura in nuove tecniche artistiche. Le sue audaci e introspettive creazioni hanno ottenuto il plauso della critica, affermandola come una voce significativa nella scena del fumetto indipendente.
A wormhole into a fleeting romance told in a mind-bending first-person chorus. Time Zone J is Julie Doucet s first inked comic since she famously quit in the nineties after an exhausting career in an industry that, at the time, made little room for women.
Mit ihrer Heftreihe “Dirty Plotte” betrat Julie Doucet Anfang der 1990er-Jahre in vielerlei Hinsicht neues Terrain. Die Verspieltheit ihrer Zeichnungen, ihre Umkehrung und Neufindung von Stereotypen brachen Dämme und öffneten Comics plötzlich auch für ein weibliches Publikum. Und noch wichtiger: Julie Doucet wurde Vorreiterin für viele Zeichner*innen, die das Bild der Comics vollständig veränderten.“Julie Doucets allerschönste Comics Strips” vereint erstmals auf Deutsch übersetzte Comics der “Dirty Plotte”-Reihe aus den 1990er-Jahren und die Bände “Wahre Haushaltscomics”, “Schnitte” und “Traumgeburten” in einem Sammelband. Seit Ende der 1990er arbeitet Julie Doucet hauptsächlich mit Collagen und Linolschnitt. Nach Stationen in New York, Seattle und Berlin lebt sie heute in Montréal.
This collection showcases revolutionary comics from a critically acclaimed cartoonist who has significantly transformed the genre. The works included highlight innovative storytelling and artistic styles, reflecting the artist's unique vision and impact on the medium. Readers can expect a thought-provoking exploration of themes that challenge conventions and inspire new perspectives in the world of comics.
'My New York Diary' documents the events in Doucet's life during a six-month period in 1991. At that time, she packed her bags and moved to New York and waiting for her was her new boyfriend, an aspiring cartoonist himself who took Julie to his apartment.
A year in the life of a world-renowned artistDespite Julie Doucet's renunciation of her comics-centric lifestyle more than five years ago, 365 Days is imbued with the iconic talent and studied aesthetic of her seminal comic book series Dirty Plotte, which catapulted her into being one of the world's greatest cartoonists. This visual journal, starting in late 2002, is an idiosyncratic collision of her various creative interests, wherein personal narrative, collage, and drawing begin to tell the story of her pursuits into printmaking and beyond, chronicling her maturation as a mid-career artist and her fluid extension into a broader arts community.Now exhibiting internationally, Doucet blurs the boundaries between high art, illustration, craft, and comics: where panel borders once divided pages, collage creeps in; events and doodles merge; recollection and narrative blend with the abstract. The surreal neurosis of her comics has subsided to reveal a more relaxed creativity that is unrestricted by form or definition and is as engaging as ever.
“One of the most promising of the younger graphic novelists.” —Charles McGrath, The New York Times Magazine Considered by many to be the most influential female cartoonist ever, Julie Doucet created an iconic body of work in the ten short years she solely devoted herself to her trailblazing comic-book series Dirty Plotte. Her comics are densely inked and detailed with a pulsating neurosis from a decidedly female point of view that set the comic-book world on its head when the series debuted. Doucet returns to comics after a five-year hiatus with a reworked edition of her dream journal My Most Secret Desire, complete with never-before-published material.My Most Secret Desire is considered to be Doucet ’s most innovative work, exploring the longings, pressures, and exploits of the feminine subconscious. Nightmarish tales of pregnancy, menstruation, sex changes, and boyfriends haunt Doucet’s nocturnal psyche with a feverish and surreal pitch.
Hintergrund des „New Yorker Tagebuchs“ ist der einjährige Aufenthalt der Künstlerin in der amerikanischen Metropole. Nach einem Kurzbesuch in New York entscheidet Julie Doucet, ihre Sachen zu packen, Montréal zu verlassen und mit ihrem neuen Freund, einem freischaffenden Künstler, in New York die Wohnung zu teilen. Doch die Beziehung entwickelt sich nicht wie erhofft… Mit gewohnt liebenswerter Boshaftigkeit schildert Julie Doucet ihren Alltag zwischen Liebe, Arbeit und anderen Schicksalsschlägen. Das „New Yorker Tagebuch“ gewährt einen offenherzigen Blick auf die Höhen und Tiefen im Leben der eigenwilligen Zeichnerin.