Time Zone J

Beschreibung

A wormhole into a fleeting romance told in a mind-bending first-person chorus<BR><BR>Time Zone J is Julie Doucet's first inked comic since she famously quit in the nineties after an exhausting career in an industry that, at the time, made little room for women.<BR><BR>The year is 1989 and twenty-three-year-old Doucet is flying to France to meet with a soldier. He's a man she only knows through their mail correspondence, a common enough reality of the zine era, when comics were mailed from cartoonist to reader and close relationships were formed.

Time is not on their side-the soldier is just on furlough for a few days-but the two make the most of their visit and discuss future plans, maybe even Christmas in Doucet's city, Montreal.<BR><BR>Based on diary entries from the whirlwind romance, the passion and high emotions of youth-before you know the limits of love, before you know the difference between love and lust-seep through the pages.

In contrast to the tryst, Doucet draws herself today, at fifty-five.<BR><BR>After years of being in a crowd of men, Doucet compulsively returns to drawing, creating an alternate universe that foregrounds women. The pages of Time Zone J overflow with images pulled from past and present, faces and people that have inspired Doucet across more than three decades of creative work.

Angaben vom Händler.