In Julie Doucet’s comics, body parts are often changing: growing, detaching, breaking, leaking, morphing. Doucet, a Montreal-based French Canadian artist, is known for her influential 1999 graphic autobiography, “My New York Diary,” the chronicle of a very bad relationship, but the seething, exuberant comics world she creates is not only tethered to reality. DIRTY PLOTTE (Drawn & Quarterly, $119.95), a gorgeously designed box set offering two hardcover volumes collecting Doucet’s entire comics oeuvre, arrives at an opportune moment. In Doucet’s comics, a coffee cup has personality; the objects in a room seem to dance.) The physicality of Doucet’s work is still shocking.

Source: New York Times December 27, 2018 19:00 UTC