{"product_id":"time-zone-j-9781770464988","title":"Time Zone J","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wormhole into a fleeting romance told in a mind-bending first-person chorus\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime Zone J\u003c\/i\u003e is Julie Doucet's first inked comic since she famously quit in the nineties after an exhausting career in an industry that, at the time, made little room for women. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe year is 1989 and twenty-three-year-old Doucet is flying to France to meet with a soldier. He's a man she only knows through their mail correspondence, a common enough reality of the zine era, when comics were mailed from cartoonist to reader and close relationships were formed. Time is not on their side--the soldier is just on furlough for a few days--but the two make the most of their visit and discuss future plans, maybe even Christmas in Doucet's city, Montreal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on diary entries from the whirlwind romance, the passion and high emotions of youth--before you know the limits of love, before you know the difference between love and lust--seep through the pages. In contrast to the tryst, Doucet draws herself today, at fifty-five. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter years of being in a crowd of men, Doucet compulsively returns to drawing, creating an alternate universe that foregrounds women. The pages of \u003ci\u003eTime Zone J \u003c\/i\u003eoverflow with images pulled from past and present, faces and people that have inspired Doucet across more than three decades of creative work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDoucet, Julie:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eJulie Doucet\u003c\/b\u003e was born near Montreal in 1965 and is best known for her frank, funny, and sometimes shocking comic book series \u003ci\u003eDirty Plotte, \u003c\/i\u003e which changed the landscape of alternative cartooning. In the 1990s, Doucet moved between New York, Seattle, Berlin, and Montreal, publishing the graphic novels \u003ci\u003eMy New York Diary\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLift Your Leg, My Fish is Dead!\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e My Most Secret Desire\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Madame Paul Affair\u003c\/i\u003e in this time. In 2000, she quit comics to concentrate on other art forms; from these experiments emerged the collection of engravings and prints \u003ci\u003eLong Time Relationship\u003c\/i\u003e, and her one-year visual journal, \u003ci\u003e365 Days\u003c\/i\u003e. Her post-comics artwork includes silkscreened artist's books, text-based collages, and animation films.","brand":"Drawn \u0026 Quarterly","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50495620808978,"sku":"9781770464988","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b26242f3-504b-42df-ac4a-b0713711ef2f.jpg?v=1730686339","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/time-zone-j-9781770464988","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}