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Iconic Montreal author and artist Julie Doucet’s Carpet Sweeper Tales<\/em> 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<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n Ric Kasini Kadour reviewed the book in Kolaj<\/em> #15.<\/p>\n Kadour wrote in his review:<\/p>\n See more of this review<\/a>.<\/p>\n PURCHASE KOLAJ #15<\/a><\/p>\n ABOUT THE BOOK<\/strong>\n
\u201cIn one story, a nun calls to a woman walking down the street, \u201cJones, Prevent fire in your home….\u201d The woman replies, \u201cSister Chevrolet! Oh No knit ntique Ntters.\u201d Next Panel. \u201cInstall the new safest chimney ever built now!,\u201d says the nun. \u201cYou\u2019re knit kits craft corn me cut,\u201d replies to woman. If this doesn\u2019t make sense to you, that\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\nCarpet Sweeper Tales<\/em>
\nby Julie Doucet
\n6.4\u2033x5.5\u2033, 185 pages
\nillustrated
\nISBN: 978-1-77046-239-7
\n$19.95 Canada\/$15.95 USA
\nDrawn & Quarterly<\/a>, Montreal, Quebec, 2016<\/p>\n