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Wednesday, February 01, 2006
The Drama of Julie Doucet
:: Posted by max @ 2/01/2006 09:11:00 PM 
The latest issue of the quarterly U.S. arts magazine The Drama features an interview with Julie Doucet, the most influential woman cartoonist of the last century, conducted by the very handsome Dan Nadel. Among the more interesting revelations about her evolving art and life are some pertinent comments about Doucet's relationship with narrative art and the world of traditional comics, which she seems to have left behind in favour of collage, sculpture, printmaking, painting, and illustrated diaries:
"I quit comics because I got completely sick of it. I was drawing comics all the time and didn't have the time or energy to do anything else. That got to me in the end. I never made enough money from comics to be able to take a break and do something else. Now I just can't stand comics."
And:
"...I wish my work would be recognized by a larger crowd of people as more art than be stuck with the cartoonist label for the rest of my life. That's what's killing me about alot of those comics guys. Dan Clowes is mostly a writer, a great artist, and has tried different things, But a lot of those guys, their drawing style never changes --the content neither-- and it seems it never will. I just don't understand that, how you can spend 50 years of your artist life doing the same thing over and over again."
The issue features examples of Doucet's art, including her diaries (portions of which were featured in last year's McSweeney's comics issue edited by Chris Ware) and comics by Mark Bell and Canadian ex-pats Nicholas Robel and Xavier Robel (of Elvis Studio).
The Drama Magazine
(above: Doucet from her diaries)
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