Cómics, 1994-2016

by Julie Doucet

Julie Doucet es probablemente la autora de cómics más influyente de todos los tiempos. Este es el segundo y último volumen conteniendo todos ellos. La artista canadiense marcó una pauta en el cómic autobiográfico que solo encuentra parangón en precedentes como Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman y Harvey Pekar. Impulsora de un discurso visceral que combina vida íntima, fantasía y estética do it yourself, Doucet despliega aquí lo mejor de su producción. Junto a sus títulos más celebrados (Highschool, My New York Diary), este libro incluye cerca de un 40% de material inédito en España, como es el caso del fruto de su colaboración con el cineasta Michel Gondry y de una historia realizada expresamente para estas obras completas, que se convierte en una suerte de testamento y testimonio de su abandono definitivo del medio.

Todas las copias del libro incluyen un fanzine de 16 páginas impreso en tinta cian, conteniendo fragmentos de distintas entrevistas e imágenes poco conocidas de su trayectoria.

Genres: Comics

256 pages, Hardcover

Published November 1, 2017

About the author

Julie Doucet is a Canadian underground cartoonist and artist, best known for her autobiographical works such as Dirty Plotte and My New York Diary.

Doucet began cartooning in 1987. Her efforts quickly began to attract critical attention, and she won the 1991 Harvey Award for "Best New Talent".
Shortly thereafter, she moved to New York. Although she moved to Seattle the following year, her experiences in New York formed the basis of the critically-acclaimed My New York Diary (1999). She moved from Seattle to Berlin in 1995, before finally returning to Montreal in 1998. Once there, she released the twelfth and final issue of Dirty Plotte before beginning a brief hiatus from comics.
She returned to the field in 2000 with The Madame Paul Affair, a slice-of-life look at contemporary Montreal which was originally serialized in Ici-Montreal, a local alternative weekly. At the same time, she was branching out into more experimental territory, culminating with the 2001 release of Long Time Relationship, a collection of prints and engravings. In 2004, Doucet also published in French an illustrated diary (Journal) chronicling about a year of her life and, in 2006, an autobiography made from a collage of words cut from magazines and newspapers (J comme Je).
In 2007, Doucet published 365 Days, in which she chronicles her life for a year, starting in late 2002.
After a long hiatus, Doucet came back to publication with Time Zone J (2022).

Reviews

[virginia · Rating 4 out of 5]

creo q me gustó más el primer tomo, pero la vida de esta chica a través de sus cómics es siempre una imagen muy directa de su sensibilidad, y de su día a día en la norte américa underground de los 90s

[Michelle Renyé · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great comic book. Organized chronologically. From 1996 on. A great present! I actually gave a copy to a woman in her 20s plus bc the strips on time at the Art uni sounded so much like her time now!!

[Fernando Polanco · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tan descarnada y graciosa como siempre. Y con historia de orígenes de Voyeurs!