Dominique Goblet was born in Brussels, Belgium, and studied
illustration at St. Luke's Institute. Involved from the start in
the creation of the experimental-comics publisher Fremok, she
published several books with them. At the same time she worked with
the Parisian publishing house L'Association and published two books
with them, including Pretending Is Lying. Artist, comics author,
and professor of comics and illustration, she is also certified as
an electrician, plumber, and welder.
Sophie Yanow is a cartoonist and translator. She is the author of
the autobiographical comic books War of Streets and Houses and What
Is a Glacier? and of the Eisner Award-winning graphic novel The
Contradictions.
“It is a rare gift to come across a book as tender, affecting and
complete as Pretending is Lying.” —Sheila Heti, The New York Times
Book Review
“This beautifully rendered, emotionally intense, and
chronologically scattered reminiscence essentially questions the
veracity of all autobiography.” —Publishers Weekly
“Here’s a terrific example of the current wave of great comics from
Europe. Dominique Goblet’s approach is postmodern, with a scruffy,
anything-goes mix of styles and moods, but it’s marked everywhere
by her forays into photography. She intersperses her tale—an
autobiographical account of family, a lover, truth, lies and
brutality—with images that look like photos.” —Etelka Lehoczky,
NPR’s Book Concierge, “2017′s Great Reads”
“Primarily pencil-sketched, Goblet’s art is unbridled and
alternately busy and peaceful. She uses lettering to great effect,
too, expressing mood, feeling, and, in her father’s case,
drunkenness with the appearance of the text. Some pages feature
only vague, dimly lit shapes, as if there are ghosts hovering on
the periphery of Goblet’s relationships, her memoir’s primary
subject. This is an imaginative, nonlinear rendering of an artist’s
life so far.” —Booklist
“A touchstone work of comics autobiography, from one of the genre’s
key innovators, is finally translated, complete with expressive
lettering newly handcrafted by the artist.” —Sean Rogers, The Globe
and Mail
“Pretending Is Lying is a perceptive and poignant contribution to
the fields of both experimental comics and graphic autobiography,
and well worth the read.” —Hans Rollman, Pop Matters
“Combining paint, ink, charcoal, and pencil, Goblet’s mixed-media
pages feel wet, textured, bleeding. . . . [Pretending is Lying is]
part of a rich tradition of international graphic memoirs from Art
Spiegelman’s Maus to Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis to Riad Sattouf’s
The Arab of the Future. . . . We’re invited to peer into the
artist’s mind. . . . It is a privilege to serve as [her]
confidante, if only for a while.” —Chantal McStay, BOMB
“Dominique Goblet spent twelve years putting parts of her life to
rest—explicit snippets and fragments that condense her entire
childhood and sketch a tender portrait of the adult she is today. .
. . Goblet hides nothing. And she forgives, weaving together, in
gray and black and on yellowing paper, with strokes of her brush, a
shocking kind of autobiography.” —L’Express
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