julie doucet’s ‘elle-humor’

i just received julie doucet’s terrific new book ‘elle-humor’ from picture box inc., which is the general book release of doucet’s ‘sophie punt lovely #11: la création de l'univers (variations), a silk-screened printed and bound edition of 50 offered by alvin buenaventura press. doucet is a superb graphic artist/designer/cartoonist from canada, who appropriates found retro imagery and typography and then collages them just like the russian constructivists did in the 1920s. her best stuff is her line art or a combination of her line art and found images and typography. she has a great color sense and has a knack of using a minimalist canvas for a striking layout. what i really like about her work is the characters or objects in her piece come from the mundane like a stool or luggage or channel lock pliers, which she illustrates with so much beauty and character. and then she can go in another direction and create something abstract and vulgar (by using ordinary magazine tear sheets of retro models); there’s a lot of diversity in her visual style and expression. anyways, here are some images from the buenaventura offering (first set of images) followed by the cover of ‘elle-humor’ and some pages from that book (click image to see a larger version). enjoy.