My Most Secret Desire (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781896597959)

"One of the most promising of the younger graphic novelists." --Charles McGrath, The New York Times Magazine

Considered by many to be the most influential female cartoonist ever, Julie Doucet created an iconic body of work in the ten short years she solely devoted herself to her trailblazing comic-book series Dirty Plotte. Her comics are densely inked and detailed with a pulsating neurosis from a decidedly female point of view that set the comic-book world on its head when the series debuted. Doucet returns to comics after a five-year hiatus with a reworked edition of her dream journal My Most Secret Desire, complete with never-before-published material.

My Most Secret Desire is considered to be Doucet 's most innovative work, exploring the longings, pressures, and exploits of the feminine subconscious. Nightmarish tales of pregnancy, menstruation, sex changes, and boyfriends haunt Doucet's nocturnal psyche with a feverish and surreal pitch.

Author: Julie Doucet
ISBN-10: 1896597955
ISBN-13: 9781896597959
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Language: English
Published: 06/13/2006
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 10.30h x 6.80w x 0.72d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/05/2005 pg. 37
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2005 pg. 1299
Booklist 02/15/2006 pg. 56
Quill & Quire 04/01/2006 pg. 38
Entertainment Weekly 04/07/2006 pg. 66