Friday, December 7, 7:00 PM
D+Q Bookstore
211 Bernard West

D+Q launches 365 Days: A Diary by Julie Doucet
with vernissage for an exhibition of Doucet's prints, which will be up at the Librairie D+Q through January


"Julie Doucet is a conceptual artist trapped in a cartoonist's body... finding fresh ways to channel her creative eruptions onto paper." --The Village Voice

"Like many of her alt-comics contemporaries, Doucet eradicates any uppity delineation between art and comics." --Bust Magazine


Despite Julie Doucet's renunciation of her comics-centric lifestyle over five years ago, 365 Days is imbued with the iconic talent and studied aesthetic of her seminal comic book series Dirty Plotte, which catapulted her into being one of the world's greatest cartoonists. This visual journal, starting in late 2002, is an idiosyncratic collision of her various creative interests, wherein personal narrative, collage and drawing begin to tell the story of her pursuits into printmaking and beyond, chronicling her maturation as a mid-career artist and her fluid extension into a broader arts community.

Now exhibiting internationally, Doucet blurs the boundaries between high art, illustration, craft and comics: where panel borders once divided pages, collage creeps in; events and doodles merge; recollection and narrative blend with the abstract. The surreal neurosis of her comics has subsided to reveal a more relaxed creativity that is unrestricted by form or definition and is as engaging as ever. 365 Days: A Diary by Julie Doucet was excerpted in McSweeney's #13.

Julie Doucet lives in Montreal. Her critically acclaimed comic-book series Dirty Plotte has been collected into the graphic novels My New York Diary; Lift Your Leg, My Fish Is Dead; and My Most Secret Desire. She also has the art books Long Time Relationship, Lady Pep, and Elle Humour.

http://drawnandquarterly.com

Contact: publicity@drawnandquarterly.com / 514-279-0691, Bookstore: 514-279-2224

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