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Julie Doucet was honored with a big exhibition this year at the Angouleme Comic Art festival in France this year after winning the most prestigious award in comics the year before. Although Canadian, I was sadly naive of her work before she won the award a year ago. I have spent a year catching up and had read several of the collected works that have been published. I was a big fan walking into the Angouleme exhibition and was still blown away with the art(no pun intended). The quality of the ink and line work doesn't translate into the published pieces and the insight I gained into her work and publishing from the show added many new levels of appreciation. Julie's work is not easy to find. A rare page comes up for auction there are the occasional pages made available at French galleries. I picked this piece up from friend and art dealer Scott Eder at Lake Como this weekend. It had no intention of bringing any more art howme with me than the 3 Pratt pieces I was picking up but this one and two smaller pieces managed to contravene my plan.
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About Julie Doucet
Julie Doucet, born in Saint-Lambert, is a Quebecois comic book artist. She has produced works classified as alternative comics, but also feminist, including her fanzine Dirty Plotte.
Around the same time, her work popped up in several alternative reviews in the USA, such as Robert Crumb's Weirdo, Wimmen's Comix', Heck!, Buzzard and Rip-Off Comix. She won the Harvey Award for best new talent in 1991. That same year, she went to New York for a year, and her experiences there are told in the book 'My New York Diary' (Drawn & Quarterly, 1999). She then settled in Seattle until 1995. She continued to make comic books published by Drawn & Quarterly, such as 'Lève ta Jambe mon Poisson est Mort' (1993). She also published her 'Monkey and the Living Death' under the Chacal Puant label.
Doucet eventually headed for Europe, where he mainly lived in Berlin until 1998. The German publisher Reprodukt gave her her own title called 'Schnitte', while she also continued to work for the Canadian independent label Mille Putois and for Drawn & Quarterly ('My Most Secret Desire', 1995). Back in Montréal, she took on 'L'Affaire Madam Paul' for the cultural weekly magazine Ici in 1999. She also contributed to the French publisher L'Association and its anthology Comix 2000. In the early 2000s, she also turned to illustration and joined the Graff atelier.
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