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A review by chelseamartinez
My Most Secret Desire by Julie Doucet
3.0
I recently read "The Night of Your Life" -- a compilation of comic strips detailing other people's dreams, drawn by a single artist. I think they had appeared in alt-weeklies and the like, and I said that because the dreamers seemed like friends of the artist, the stories may have been more amusing to him than to me as a reader... nothing held them together.
This compilation of Julie Doucet's comics about dreams has some of that disappointing quality, but because they are her own, you can piece together themes and running jokes that her mind seems to be playing on her, and that makes the difference. It's also nice that the comics range over many years so you can see how her style has changed. I love how she tries to accurately capture her own diction in English.
This compilation of Julie Doucet's comics about dreams has some of that disappointing quality, but because they are her own, you can piece together themes and running jokes that her mind seems to be playing on her, and that makes the difference. It's also nice that the comics range over many years so you can see how her style has changed. I love how she tries to accurately capture her own diction in English.