Jules Fischer is a Franco-Japanese comic artist and illustrator from Sapporo, Japan. Growing up half-Japanese in Japan, she often felt like an eternal tourist in her own country - an outsider, an anomaly. Her work centers on themes such as the struggle for identity and belonging, loneliness, frustration, nostalgia, and the search for childlike playfulness within darker subjects such as depression and existential dread.
Influenced by retro sci-fi and horror, her art explores liminal spaces and the uncanny valleys of everyday life, through a parallel universe filled with strange machinery and relatable mutant beings. A collector at heart, Fischer draws inspiration from vintage toys, ’70s cookbooks, realistic replica foods, and trading cards. Many of her pieces examine the idea of identity - how it can be found or lost through imitation and disguise - and the dangers of dissociative escapism in the process.
No Anomalies is Fischer’s first solo exhibition, bringing all these elements together in one space. It features original traditional ink illustrations from the Oneiromat zine series, as well as preliminary sketches, original comic pages, and inked-up sketchbooks. The show also celebrates the long-awaited release of Chimera Obscura: Chapter Two, with all original pages on display for the first time.