Lady Pep

(Drawn and Quarterly, 2004)
™ and © 2004 Julie Doucet

Julie Doucet’s collection of art isn’t much to do with comics, at least in a narrative sense. Rather, the book from Drawn & Quarterly is an illustrative serial, linked by subjects (e.g. portraits of boyfriends) and media (such as recycled newspapers), working her way through ideas and themes in a much more painterly tradition than a cartoonist one. A spectacularly intriguing cover cloaks a very different artistic turn inside. A mix of grotesque caricatures and odd designs makes for some pretty esoteric viewing, but the craft is obviously there.

— Brendan McGinley

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