Julie Doucet
Julie Doucet ( born December 31, 1965 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada ) is a Canadian artist who was best known as a comic artist. The model for Doucet's style to Robert Crumb. So far, their works have been translated into French, German, Spanish and Finnish and published, both as stand-alone publications as well as in magazines such as Weirdo, Nosotros Somos Los Muertos, or Lapin STRAPAZIN.
Career
Doucet attended Catholic convent school in Montréal district of Saint- Lambert in her childhood. From 1983 to 1987 she studied at the Université du Québec à Montréal ( UQAM ). In the final year of her studies, she began to publish their own mini comic series Dirty Plotte, a French-Canadian slang and not a compliment, then still self-publishing. Her work has been known within a short time, and so she won in 1991, a Harvey Award for Best New Talent. The Montreal publisher Drawn and Quarterly took her to his program and twelve numbers for their Dirty Plotte booklet published there from 1991 to 1998.
In the 90s, Doucet moved several times (1991 to New York City in 1992 to Seattle to Berlin in 1995 and 1998 back to Montréal), the experience in this regard can be found in its almost always strongly autobiographical comics again. The old Kaufhof at Alexanderplatz is immortalized with the adjacent radio tower on Dirty Plotte No. 11.
From about 1998 Doucet wanted to create no more comics, but to devote more of the non-narrative art ( from this period are some lithographs and serigraphs ), although sporadically returned back to the comics, but published as good as any new material since 2000 more in this medium. One of her recent work was a contribution to the anthology Comix 2000 of the French author publisher L'Association. In an interview in June 2006, Doucet said happy about her decision to have withdrawn completely from the drawing of comics, citing both the qualities of the medium as well as with the typical environment of readers and other authors.
Meanwhile Doucet works mainly with linocuts and collages, as well as love poems.
Published in German comics
The published in German language publications of Doucet were all moved from reproduction.
- True household comics. 1995, ISBN 3-9803608-3-0.
- Sections 1, 1996, ISBN 3-931377-03-2.
- Sections 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. 2004, ISBN 3-931377-26-1.