Julie Doucet is a fabulous artist, as well as graphic novelist. She is known for her award winning graphic novel, "My NewYork Diary," which is fabulous. This smaller book, "The Madame Paul Affair," is just as excellent.Every story feels very autobiographical, as though all the stories come from her every day life, which fascinates me. The autobiographical novelist, is the most interesting to me, because it's so ordinary, but it also feels like you're looking much deeper into someones personal life, like in Clumsy by Jeffrey Brown.
One thing that really stood out to me in "The Madame Paul Affair," was that her speach bubbles, are set behind the heads of the characters, which does two things, it draws your eyes to really look at the characters face, to read what they're feeling, it also is like symbolism for being inside their head. I really find that quite interesting, and it works to draw me into the story.
The story is a slightly strange story about an apartment that she lived in with her boyfriend "Andre." It's laid out almost like a cheesy mystery, which always gets me, regardless as to how cheesy it is!
The art is very typical of Julie Doucet's style, which is comforting. After this I'm onto reading, "My Most Secret Desire," which is another one of Doucet's
9/10
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