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Considered by many to be the most influential female cartoonist ever, Julie Doucet created an iconic body of work in the 10 years she devoted to her ground-breaking comic book series, Dirty Plotte. Her comics are densely inked and detailed with a pulsing neurosis from a decidedly female point of view. When the series debuted it set the comic book world on its head.
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.
Regarded as Doucet's most innovative work, My Most Secret Desire explores the longings, pressures and exploits of the feminine subconscious. Nightmarish tales of pregnancy, menstruation, sex changes and boyfriends haunt her nocturnal psyche with a feverish and surreal pitch.
About this Author
Julie Doucet was born near Montreal in 1965 and is best known for her frank, funny, and sometimes shocking comic book series Dirty Plotte, which changed the landscape of alternative cartooning. In the 1990s, Doucet moved between New York, Seattle, Berlin, and Montreal, publishing the graphic novels My New York Diary, Lift Your Leg, My Fish is Dead!, My Most Secret Desire, and The Madame Paul Affair. In 2000, she quit comics to concentrate on other art forms. From these experiments emerged the collection of engravings and prints Long Time Relationship; her one-year visual journal, 365 Days; and sassy collages from fumetto comics, Carpet Sweeper Tales. Her post-comics artwork includes silkscreened artist's books, text-based collages, sculpture, and animation films.
Reviews
"[Doucet's] honesty is unsettling, but funny, too ... It's on the cutting edge." (Entertainment Weekly)
"Julie Doucet is the female R. Crumb." (Village Voice)
"One of the most promising of the younger graphic novelists." (Charles McGrath, New York Times Magazine)
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