Elle-Humour

New York: Picture Box Inc., 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. An exceptional copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 144 pages; Description: 144 p. ; col ill. ; Subjects: Individual artist --Art, Canadian, modern --Collage --Comic Strips and Cartoons --Wit and humor, Pictorial --Women in art. Summary: Renowned cartoonist Julie Doucet has created a unique, mass produced artist'sook. Printed on a half dozen different papers in eight colours, thismalgamation of drawing, collage, painting, and narrative is a visionaryeditation on love and its discontents. Using cut out, collaged letters andhrases to compose her oblique, poetic text, Doucet's words are asraphically enticing as her images. The book moves from pointed collages maderom 1960s Quebecois magazines to abstract, psychedelic drawings to a movingatalog of her lover's possessions, and back again. The diversity of imagesould be the work of multiple artists, but Doucet's funny, frank sensibilityies it all together. Doucet, long known as the ""female R. Crumb,"" andegarded as the finest female cartoonist of the 20th century, has neverefore published a book like this: a pure, non-comics distillation of herrtistic sensibility.