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Carpet Sweeper Tales
by Julie Doucet
Iconic Montreal author and artist Julie Doucet’s Carpet Sweeper Tales is a collection of dreamy, collaged photo comics. Though Doucet stopped drawing comics more than ten years ago, here she revisits the art form, pulling images from 1970s Italian fumetti or photonovels to create her own collage comics. Using vintage women’s and home decorating magazines, Doucet collages a unique dialogue of love and travel between characters sitting in classic cars, driving through cities and pristine countryside. The result is a collection of lighthearted stories that play upon the disconnects between 1970s imagery and our modern world.
Ric Kasini Kadour reviewed the book in Kolaj #15.
Kadour wrote in his review:
“In one story, a nun calls to a woman walking down the street, “Jones, Prevent fire in your home….” The woman replies, “Sister Chevrolet! Oh No knit ntique Ntters.” Next Panel. “Install the new safest chimney ever built now!,” says the nun. “You’re knit kits craft corn me cut,” replies to woman. If this doesn’t make sense to you, that’s okay. It makes a little more sense if you follow the instruction at the front of the book and ‘read it out loud.’ The dialogue holds up and after the first few panels, the story unfolds the way it does in a movie where the characters speak a language you only sort of understand.”
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Carpet Sweeper Tales
by Julie Doucet
6.4″x5.5″, 185 pages
illustrated
ISBN: 978-1-77046-239-7
$19.95 Canada/$15.95 USA
Drawn & Quarterly, Montreal, Quebec, 2016
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