CARPET SWEEPER TALES JOHN PORCELLINO to her linocut and collage

to her linocut and collage work

rendered in Thompson's exquisite ink line

The setting is the pre-modern Japanese countryside of the author's youth

Curveball focuses on the duality of hope and delusion

Let's hope so

CARPET SWEEPER TALES JOHN PORCELLINO to her linocut and collageJulie Doucet is an artist who has mastered many voices and styles, from her groundbreaking early comic book series, Dirty Plotte, and the classic graphic novel My New York Diary, to her linocut and collage work, to her impeccable 'zines, prints, and other ephemera. In Carpet Sweeper Tales, we see this multi faceted artist combine her many talents into one genre defying masterwork. Here she revisits the comics form, pulling images from 1970s Italian