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Julie Doucet

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Julie Doucet (born December 31, 1965)<ref name=autobio>Julie Doucet's biography at her website Template:Webarchive</ref> 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."<ref name=onset />

BiographyEdit

Early careerEdit

Doucet was born in Montreal, Quebec. She was educated at an all-girls Catholic school, studied fine arts at Cégep du Vieux Montréal (a junior college), then attended Université du Québec à Montréal.<ref name=autobio /> Her university degree was in printing arts.<ref name=autobio /> She began cartooning in 1987. She was published in small-press comics and self-published her own comic called Dirty Plotte.<ref name="nyt2022">Template:Cite news</ref> She used the photocopied zine to record "her day to day life, her dreams, angsts, [and] fantasies."<ref name=autobio /> It was only when she was published in Weirdo,<ref name=weirdo26>Weirdo #26 (Fall 1989), Grand Comics Database.</ref> Robert Crumb's magazine, that she began to attract critical attention.<ref name=onset>Shainblum, Mark: "Canada's Alternative Comic Creators Stand Up For Themselves", Onset, vol. 1, #4, p. 25.</ref>

Comic worksEdit

Doucet began being published by Drawn & Quarterly in January 1991 in a regular-sized comic series also named Dirty Plotte.<ref name=plottegcd>Dirty Plotte (Drawn & Quarterly) at the GCD</ref> 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.<ref name=autobio /> While in Berlin, she had a book named Ciboire de criss published by L'Association in Paris, her first book in French.<ref name=autobio /> Once back in Montreal, she released the twelfth and final issue of Dirty Plotte before beginning a brief hiatus from comics.

She returned to the field in 2000 with The Madame Paul Affair, a slice-of-life look at contemporary Montreal which was originally serialized in Ici-Montreal, a local alternative weekly. At the same time, she was branching out into more experimental territory, culminating with the 2001 release of Long Time Relationship, a collection of prints and engravings. In 2004, Doucet also published in French an illustrated diary (Journal) chronicling a year of her life and, in 2006, an autobiography made from a collage of words cut from magazines and newspapers (J comme Je). In spring of 2006 she had her first solo print show, named en souvenir du Melek, at the galerie B-312 in Montreal.<ref name=b312>Art show introduction at galerie B-312 by Jean-Emile Verdier Template:Webarchive</ref> In December 2007, Drawn and Quarterly published 365 Days: A Diary by Julie Doucet, in which she chronicled her life for a year, starting in late 2002.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Post-comic worksEdit

She remained a fixture in the Montreal arts community, but in an interview in the June 22, 2006, edition of the Montreal Mirror, she declared that she had retired from long-form comics.<ref name=mirror>Interview in the Montreal Mirror, June 22, 2006 Template:Webarchive</ref>

She also said "...it's quite a lot of work, and not that much money. I went to a newspaper to propose a comic strip because I only had to draw a small page and it would be out the next week. For once it was regular pay and good money."<ref name=mirror />

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She had a book of poetry published by L'Oie de Cravan in 2006, À l’école de l’amour.<ref name=walrus>Interview with Doucet, The Walrus Template:Webarchive</ref> Her post-comics artwork consists of linocuts, collage, and papier-mâché sculptures.<ref name=dandqbio>Biography at Drawn & Quarterly</ref> In 2007, Doucet designed the cover for the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women.<ref name=penguin>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Return to comicsEdit

In April 2022, Doucet returned to making comics with Time Zone J, published by Drawn and Quarterly. As she said about making the new comic: Template:Cquote

Time Zone J is notable for its unusual format, which is designed to be read from the bottom of each page to the top.<ref>Yates, Lane. "Time, Zone, J: Temporalities of Memory in Julie Doucet's New Comic," The Comics Journal (June 29, 2022).</ref>

Awards and honoursEdit

In 1991, Dirty Plotte was nominated for best new series and Doucet won the Harvey Award for "Best New Talent".<ref name=harvey>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=awardslist>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1999, when The Comics Journal made a list of the top 100 comics of all time, she was on several of the short-lists and Dirty Plotte ranked 96th.<ref name=comicsjournal100>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2000, her book My New York Diary won the Firecracker Award for best graphic novel.<ref name=firecracker>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Doucet's book 365 Days: A Diary was nominated for best book award at the 2009 Doug Wright Awards.<ref name=wright>CBC on the 2008 Doug Wright Awards</ref> In 2019, Doucet's Dirty Plotte collection was nominated for the SPX Ignatz award for outstanding collection.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In April 2021,she was awarded the Prix Albert-Chartier, during the Festival Québec BD, for her contribution to comics in Quebec.

In March 2022, she was awarded the Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême as a lifetime achievement.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She is only the third woman to win the award.<ref name="nyt2022" />

BibliographyEdit

In popular cultureEdit

Doucet's name appears in the lyrics of the Le Tigre song "Hot Topic."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

See alsoEdit

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