Julie Doucet was born near Montreal in 1965 and is best known for her frank, funny, and sometimes shocking comic book series Dirty Plotte, which changed the landscape of alternative cartooning. In the 1990s, Doucet moved between New York, Seattle, Berlin, and Montreal, publishing the graphic novels My New York Diary, Lift Your Leg, My Fish is Dead!, My Most Secret Desire, and The Madame Paul Affair. In 2000, she quit comics to concentrate on other art forms. From these experiments emerged the collection of engravings and prints Long Time Relationship; her one-year visual journal, 365 Days; and sassy collages from fumetto comics, Carpet Sweeper Tales. Her post-comics artwork includes silkscreened artist's books, text-based collages, sculpture, and animation films.
"A lavish history lesson for those who might take today's
outpouring of feminist comics for granted... and while most of the
material dates from 20 to 30 years ago, the wonderment and rage at
virulently gendered behavior feels fresh, and relevant for this
moment."--Hillary Chute, The New York Times "While stretching the
boundaries of what a 'comic book' can be, Doucet makes work that
functions as a warm blanket in a cold, cold world."--Kathleen
Hanna
"These are among the most personal and powerfully intimate comics
ever made. In their obsessive, utterly-fearless precision they draw
us fully into Doucet's private dream-vision, a
gleefully-nihilistic, rageful and tenderly melancholic perspective
on a dark and complicated world, the panels so dense with raw
anthropomorphous energy they seem more like living organisms than
lines on paper."--Daniel Clowes "A magnificent two book box set
that comprisesthe complete Julie Doucet, the Canadian artist whose
funny, feminist, and candidly intimate tales of the female psyche
have never seemed more bracing or relevant."--Rachel Cookie, The
Guardian "An author of endless skill... Dirty Plotte documents
Doucet's genius."--BOMB Magazine "Doucet uses transgression to
carve out a space of power and freedom."--New York Review of Books
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