Julie Doucet Archives

This year's President of Angoulême International Comics Festival and last year's winner  Chris Ware has awarded Julie Doucet with the Angoulême Grand Prix, the most prestigious award in the world for a creator in the comic book medium A lifetime achievement award established in 1974 given annually during the Angoulême International Comics Festival to[...]

The three nominated comic book creators are Pénélope Bagieu, Julie Doucet and Catherine Meurisse Catherine Meurisse was previously nominated, but this is the first time the Festival has had an all-women shortlist There are only a handful of times when they have had any women on it. Pénélope Bagieu was born in 1982 in Paris[...]

Julie Doucet is a semi-autobiographical cartoonist best known for her comic book series Dirty Plotte, self-published in the late eighties, then picked up in the nineties by Canadian publisher Drawn & Quarterly But she dropped out of the medium, returning sporadically, but telling the Montreal Mirror I quit comics because I got completely sick of it[...]

Nominees for this award are selected by a team of educators led by Jennifer Haines, MA, B.Ed., who is also the proprietor of Guelph, Ontario's The Dragon comic book shop. Canadian Comic Book Hall of Fame / Temple de la renommée Bandes Dessinées Canadien A lifetime achievement award honouring Canadian comic book creators (artists, writers, cartoonists, editors[...]