My New York Diary

By Julie Doucet

Book Overview

An all-new edition of groundbreaking, flagship D&Q author Julie Doucet's glorious contribution to the graphic memoir canon

In 1991, pioneering cartoonist Julie Doucet packed up her life and moved to New York. Thirty-five years later, the diary she kept lives on as a classic of autobio and literary comics.

Doucet takes readers through a chaotic yet deeply relatable time. Trouble crops up at every other turn through a toxic on-again-off-again relationship, her creative insecurities in a male-dominated art scene, her worsening epilepsy, and a tendency to self-medicate with booze and drugs. This unapologetic, no-holds-barred account of an artist's day-to-day in her mid-20s captures the highs and lows of modern womanhood. New York's 90s underground scene comes to life in strikingly detailed panels with messy uptown apartments, crowded punk clubs, and unmanicured, trash-lined city sidewalks in all its dingy glamour.

Each and every panel of My New York Diary is jam-packed with the exquisitely blocky flourishes that cemented Doucet's reputation and earned her the Grand Prix d'Angoul me in 2022.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1770469141
• ISBN13: 9781770469143
• Release Date: December 2026
• Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
• Length: 109 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Goddess artiste

So you're a confused young man and trying to figure out exactly what women want. Well, Mme Doucet won't help you out there. But she will show you what women HATE in men with brutal honesty. And the guys are utter jerks and crybabies.I probably was like one of the characters in this book and knew someone like Julie when I was younger. I seem to recall sort of being like her roommate, the one always dreading World War III. Why are us guys so obtuse? Probably for phallogocentric reasons. We get wrapped up in upright behavior and lose out on all the fun we could have by being bent. We're also selfish sometimes in the wrong way. (Women do like selfish men, just not stupidly selfish men.)It would be nice if Julie could follow this one up with a story of a successful relationship with some guy. Because we care for her and want her to succeed.

refreshing humor and truth

Julie Doucet really has her pen on the pulse of experiences, particularly hers. This volume focuses on her adventures while living in the heart of New York City, and indeed makes for entertainment. The wonderful illustrations only compliment the story line, and makes the reader want to gobble up the book.