Julie Doucet
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| Born |
December 31, 1965 (age 51) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist, Artist |
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Notable works
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Dirty Plotte My New York Diary |
| Awards | Harvey for best new artist |
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Julie Doucet (born December 31, 1965) is a Canadian underground cartoonist and artist, best known for her autobiographical works such as Dirty Plotte and My New York Diary. Her work is concerned with such topics as "sex, violence, menstruation and male/female issues."
Doucet was born in Montreal, Quebec. She was educated first at an all-girls Catholic school, then studied fine arts at Cégep du Vieux Montréal (a junior college) and afterwards at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her university degree was in printing arts. She began cartooning in 1987. She was published in small-press comics and self-published her own comic called Dirty Plotte. She used the photocopied zine to record "her day to day life, her dreams, angsts, [and] fantasies." It was only when she was published in Weirdo,Robert Crumb's magazine, that she began to attract critical attention.
Doucet began being published by Drawn & Quarterly in January 1991 in a regular sized comic series also named Dirty Plotte. Shortly thereafter, she moved to New York. Although she moved to Seattle the following year, her experiences in New York formed the basis of the critically acclaimed My New York Diary (many stories of which were taken from Dirty Plotte). She moved from Seattle to Berlin in 1995, before finally returning to Montreal in 1998. While in Berlin, she had a book named Ciboire de criss published by L'Association in Paris, her first book in French. Once back in Montreal, she released the twelfth and final issue of Dirty Plotte before beginning a brief hiatus from comics.
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