A review by lolaleviathan
365 Days by Julie Doucet

3.0

Julie Doucet is known for her crazy, sexually explicit comics about her crazy dreams and health problems and young adulthood. this book has very little of that. instead, it covers a year of Doucet's life as a thirtysomething professional artist. while she travels and socializes a lot, most of the days described in this book are spent screenprinting, carving linocuts and cutting up old magazines while watching old movies on TV. which is kind of more interesting, at least to me. I'm interested in what other people do all day. I can't really fathom it. following someone who supports herself totally with her creative art was totally eye-opening.

and her drawings are endlessly delightful.

something else I found really fascinating about this book was reading about Julie's day-to-day experiences being bilingual--but definitely more comfortable in French--in a bilingual city, and thinking about how she wrote the diary in French and translated it herself.