- Paperback: 104 pages
- Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly; illustrated edition edition (Nov 1 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1896597246
- ISBN-13: 978-1896597249
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 204 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,030,321 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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With her confrontationally intimate comic book serial Dirty Plotte, Julie Doucet became one of the first stars of Montreal's groundbreaking comics publisher, Drawn & Quarterly. 1999's My New York Diary collects her most extended storyline, of an unhappy sojourn in New York, along with earlier Montreal stories. Like all the great cartoonists, Doucet can wring endless variety and invention from the most basic of situations: in this case, being stuck in a tiny, cluttered apartment with an pathologically horrible boyfriend.
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Doucet follows her popular underground comics series Dirty Plotte with an autobiographical graphic novel chronicling her six-month stint as a New Yorker. The book opens when Doucet is 17, just graduated from an all-girls' school in Canada. Before she leaves for New York, she loses her virginity, confronts the deadly monotony of art school and endures a suicide attempt by an odd and pathetic boyfriend. It's soon clear that Doucet learns things the hard way, but in New York City she finds another boyfriend and gives love a second shot. It isn't long, though, before she's in a downward spiral, suffering from both a mysterious bout of seizures and the new boyfriend--who, it turns out, is grimly possessive and a bit of a psycho to boot--so Doucet must plan an escape from him. Full of their author's most intimate and painful moments, Doucet's comics bring a depth of humanity and a deadpan humor to a succession of personal calamities. Doucet's unapologetic candor captures the harsh realities of her life and the pluck (and luck) that gets her out of one self-inflicted jam after another. Much like her life, her black-and-white drawings are complex, detailed and cluttered, and transform the hard knocks and bad decisions of a somewhat innocent underground cartoonist into wonderfully charming tales of urban survival. (Dec.)
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Goddess artiste,
By Baltasar Gracian (Outside, Time) - See all my reviews
This review is from: My New York Diary (Paperback)
So you're a confused young man and trying to figure out exactly what women want. Well, Mme Doucet won't help you out there. But she will show you what women HATE in men with brutal honesty. And the guys are utter jerks and crybabies.I probably was like one of the characters in this book and knew someone like Julie when I was younger. I seem to recall sort of being like her roommate, the one always dreading World War III. Why are us guys so obtuse? Probably for phallogocentric reasons. We get wrapped up in upright behavior and lose out on all the fun we could have by being bent. We're also selfish sometimes in the wrong way. (Women do like selfish men, just not stupidly selfish men.) It would be nice if Julie could follow this one up with a story of a successful relationship with some guy. Because we care for her and want her to succeed.
4.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: My New York Diary (Paperback)
It's not that My New York Diary is about some earth-shattering moment, or a series of connected but equallty earth-shattering moments in Julie Doucet's life -- or that it resonates with the human experience or anything. The moments depicted here are certainly defining moments, and ones that are universal, even archetypal (My New York Diary is, really, a kind of heroic journey), but it's not the plot that makes this book a success. What kept me turning the pages (and keeps me returning to turn the pages some more) is that Julie Doucet is honest as hell, whether she's dealing with an ex-boyfriend's dramatic attempts at suicide while she's trying to get ready for exams (after he lightly slits his wrists, she finds herself thinking that if he would just doze off, perhaps she could finish filling out her final sketchbook), or her own procrastination (she easily diverts herself, for example, from her work by drinking beer and playing Candyland with her unproductive New York boyfriend). And then... there are the drawings. Doucet crowds the frames with detail, particularly throughout the New York portions of the book, so that you find yourself staring into frames for ages. Perhaps this doesn't sound like the highest praise, but I have to say that Julie Doucet draws garbage better than any other comic artist I know. She's also phenomenal at depicting the sad clutter of apathy that surrounds her in her boyfriend's New York apartment, and which she finds replicated and waiting for her in her old apartment in Montreal. There are times when the narrative might have been more compelling, but in general Doucet conveys time and significance and atmosphere with a lot of charm and power.
5.0 out of 5 stars
refreshing humor and truth,
By amajile@angelfire.com (Minneapolis) - See all my reviews
This review is from: My New York Diary (Paperback)
Julie Doucet really has her pen on the pulse of experiences, particularly hers. This volume focuses on her adventures while living in the heart of New York City, and indeed makes for entertainment. The wonderful illustrations only compliment the story line, and makes the reader want to gobble up the book.
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