Julie Doucet
Julie Doucet (born December 31, 1965 in Montréal , Québec , Canada ) is a Canadian artist who was mainly known as a cartoonist . Robert Crumb is considered a role model for Doucet's style . So far, her works have been translated into French, German, Spanish and Finnish and published, both as independent publications and in magazines such as Weirdo , Nosotros Somos Los Muertos , Lapin and Strapazin .
Life
As a child, Doucet attended the Catholic convent school in the Montréal district of Saint-Lambert. From 1983 to 1987 she studied at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). In the final year of her studies, she began publishing her own minicomic series Dirty Plotte , a French-Canadian slang expression and no compliment, then self-published. Her work quickly became known, and in 1991 she won a Harvey Award for Best New Talent. The Montreal publisher Drawn and Quarterly took them into its program and twelve numbers of their Dirty Plotte booklet appeared there from 1991 to 1998.
In the 1990s, Doucet moved several times (to New York City in 1991 , to Seattle in 1992 , to Berlin in 1995 and back to Montréal in 1998), and experiences in this regard can be found in her almost always strongly autobiographical comics. The old Kaufhof am Alex is immortalized with the neighboring television tower in Dirty Plotte No. 11.
From around 1998 onwards, Doucet no longer wanted to create comics, but rather to devote himself to non-narrative art (some lithographs and screen prints also come from this time ). She only returned to comics sporadically, but has published next to no new material in this medium since 2000. One of her last works was a contribution to the Comix 2000 anthology published by the French publishing house L'Association . In an interview in June 2006, Doucet said she was happy about her decision to have completely withdrawn from drawing comics and justified this both with the peculiarities of the medium and with the typical environment of readers and other authors. She mainly worked with linocuts and collages, as well as love poems.
At the Fumetto , the International Comix Festival in Lucerne, her work was honored in a comprehensive exhibition in 2017.
Comics published in German
Doucet's publications in German were all published by Reprodukt .
- True household comics. 1995, ISBN 3-9803608-3-0
- Cuts 1. 1996, ISBN 3-931377-03-2
- Schnitte 2. 1997, ISBN 3-931377-07-5
- Caricature of love. 1997, ISBN 3-931377-14-8
- Dream births. 2002, ISBN 3-931377-48-2
- New York Diary. Translated by Jutta Harms. 2004, ISBN 3-931377-26-1
Web links
- Author's website
- Julie Doucet at Reprodukt
- Julie Doucet at Drawn & Quarterly - English
- Julie Doucet at L'Oie de Cravan ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) - French
- Reviews in the German-language press 1992–2000, list of the University of Innsbruck , Canada Center
Individual evidence
- ↑ Plotte twists ( Memento of July 1, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) - Short article on Doucet with an interview in the Montreal Mirror in English
- ↑ Lars von Töre: Signs and Wounds. Tagesspiegel.de, April 1, 2017, accessed April 18, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Doucet, Julie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian comic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montréal , Québec , Canada |