Total suicide

Julie Doucet had promised to stop the comic strip and the autobiography. Here that she returns to her words with a fabulous immersive fresco. We are In 1989, Julie was 23 years old, she produced fanzines which she distributed in the bookstores or by mail order. She then began an epistolary relationship intense with one of his readers, a Frenchman who is doing his military service and whom she nicknamed "the hussar". The two young people wrote to each other hundreds of of letters and become enthusiastic about each other, until a trip to Europe offers them the opportunity to meet in person... "Suicide "total" is read and unfolds like an uninterrupted flow. No boxes, but pages saturated in an interlacing of familiar faces (that of Julie in particular) and unknown, birds, animals, various objects – all drawn in ink – and which carries us like a river back in time. The machine is a little rusty at the beginning and the author urges herself to draw, evokes her difficulty handling words, before diving – and us with her – into the flood of his memories to resurrect the intensity of past feelings. Exit the boards and the boxes, "Suicide total" was drawn in one piece. In order to best render this graphic performance, the book is presented in the form of form of a leporello which unfolds over almost 20 meters.