BIOGRAPHY:

Julie Doucet (1965- ) is from Montreal, Canada where she attended art school. She began her confrontational and controversial comic work in 1987 with a minicomic called Dirty Plotte (plotte is French for cunt) before a further 12 issues were professionally published between 1991 and 1998.

Dirty Plotte is a collection of dreams, diaries and stories - often shocking, usually funny - which won her the 1991 Harvey Award for Best New Talent.

"Despite it's name, Dirty Plotte is not vulgar. It's uninhibited but not irresponsible. It explores menstruation, self-destruction, fear, sex, anger, boogers, helplessness, death - yet does not wallow in despair. Dirty Plotte is also very funny. This maybe how it manages to be macabre without being morbid."
The Comics Journal #141

In 1998 the final issue of Dirty Plotte was published, allowing Julie to concentrate on different forms of non-narrative art, culminating in 2001 with Long Term Relationship, being a series of engravings based on photographs Julie found while living in Berlin. Julie returned to the comic medium with a strip produced for the Montreal weekly, ICI, published in collected format as The Madam Paul Affair.

Interviews:
The Montreal Mirror (2006)
Jade (2001)
The Comics Journal #141 (1991)

Resources:
Julie Doucet at Drawn & Quarterly
Julie Doucet at BD Quebec

My New York Diary
Drawn & Quarterly, 1999
In 1991, Julie Doucet left Montreal and headed to New York. Trouble followed her in the form of a jealous boyfriend, insecurity about her talent, her worsening epilepsy, and a tendency to self-medicate with booze and drugs.

"...evocative and genuinely moving... Doucet is one of the best cartoonists working today..."
100 Best Comics, The Comics Journal #210

Lift Your Leg, My Fish Is Dead
Drawn & Quarterly, 1993
Strange and unconventional stories from the unfettered imagination of Julie Doucet - fatal kisses, misadventures with tampons, ecstatic lovemaking with giant beer bottles and more.

"Doucet's artwork bursts with a passion for life... the dense, twisting art has a dreamlike innocence that is almost hypnotic."
LA Weekly

Madam Paul Affair
Drawn & Quarterly, 2000
A story about the odd characters and mishaps that accompany urban living in Montreal. Julie Doucet and her boyfriend find a new apartment with cheap rent and a string of nutty neighbors. One ex-con breaks out of his apartment by smashing his own window. Another man attempts to kill himself by stuffing his head in a gas oven. But perhaps the oddest person of all is the landlady herself, Madame Paul, who one day mysteriously disappears...

Lady Pep (2004)
Long Term Relationship (2001)
The Madame Paul Affair (2000)
My New York Diary (1999)
My Most Secret Desire (1995)
Lift Your Leg, My Fish Is Dead (1993)

Periodicals:
Dirty Plotte #1-12 (1991-1998)