Julie Doucet
Julie Doucet is a Canadian underground cartoonist and artist, best known for her autobiographical works such as Dirty Plotte and My New York Diary. Doucet began cartooning in 1987. Her efforts quickly began to attract critical attention, and she won the 1991 Harvey Award for "Best New Talent". 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 (1999). She moved from Seattle to Berlin in 1995, before finally returning to Montreal in 1998. Once there, 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 about 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 2007, Doucet published 365 Days, in which she chronicles her life for a year, starting in late 2002. After a long hiatus, Doucet came back to publication with Time Zone J (2022).
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An enduring collection of revolutionary comics from a genre-transforming and critically acclaimed cartoonistJulie Doucet arrived in comics in the 1990s as a fully formed cartoonist. Her comic book series Dirty Plotte was visionary both for the medium and for storytelling. Her stories are candid, funny and intimate, plumbing the depths of the female psyche while charting the fragility of the men around her. Her artwork is dense and confident, never wavering in the wit and humour of its owner. Doucet was active in comics for fifteen years before she moved on to other mediums. Her influence casts a long shadow over the medium, Dirty Plotte is quite simply one of the most iconic comic book series to have ever been created.Dirty Plotte: The Complete Julie Doucet collects the entire comic book series, including the acclaimed My New York Diary, as well as rare comics and previously unpublished material; a reproduction of the first Dirty Plotte mini comic; essays about her comics legacy and feminist influence by curator Dan Nadel and academic Martine Delvaux respectively; an interview by comics scholar Christian Gasser; and personal anecdotes from Jami Attenberg, Adrian Tomine, and more.Doucet uses the covers of this two-book box set to present an all-new comic that explores her complicated relationship with femininity and the importance of her relationships with female readers. Astonishingly honest, brutal, and funny, Dirty Plotte is a revelatory journey into a legendary cartoonist’s oeuvre.
THE CLASSIC GRAPHIC NOVEL, BACK IN PRINTBack in print is the classic graphic novel by the acclaimed (though no longer working in comics) iconic artist Julie Doucet. In one of the first contemporary graphic novels, Doucet abruptly packs her bags and moves to New York. Trouble follows 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.
“One of the most promising of the younger graphic novelists.” —Charles McGrath, The New York Times Magazine Considered by many to be the most influential female cartoonist ever, Julie Doucet created an iconic body of work in the ten short years she solely devoted herself to her trailblazing comic-book series Dirty Plotte. Her comics are densely inked and detailed with a pulsating neurosis from a decidedly female point of view that set the comic-book world on its head when the series debuted. Doucet returns to comics after a five-year hiatus with a reworked edition of her dream journal My Most Secret Desire, complete with never-before-published material.My Most Secret Desire is considered to be Doucet ’s most innovative work, exploring the longings, pressures, and exploits of the feminine subconscious. Nightmarish tales of pregnancy, menstruation, sex changes, and boyfriends haunt Doucet’s nocturnal psyche with a feverish and surreal pitch.
A year in the life of a world-renowned artistDespite Julie Doucet's renunciation of her comics-centric lifestyle more than five years ago, 365 Days is imbued with the iconic talent and studied aesthetic of her seminal comic book series Dirty Plotte, which catapulted her into being one of the world's greatest cartoonists. This visual journal, starting in late 2002, is an idiosyncratic collision of her various creative interests, wherein personal narrative, collage, and drawing begin to tell the story of her pursuits into printmaking and beyond, chronicling her maturation as a mid-career artist and her fluid extension into a broader arts community.Now exhibiting internationally, Doucet blurs the boundaries between high art, illustration, craft, and comics: where panel borders once divided pages, collage creeps in; events and doodles merge; recollection and narrative blend with the abstract. The surreal neurosis of her comics has subsided to reveal a more relaxed creativity that is unrestricted by form or definition and is as engaging as ever.
Julie Doucet's first book collection, featuring a selection of strips culled from her cult comic book series Dirty Plotte is just as odd as it's title suggests. You'll find it all in here: fatal kisses, early misadventures with tampons, ecstatic lovemaking with giant beer bottles, and a host of other strange and unconventional themes from the unfettered imagination of Ms. Doucet.
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...
A wormhole into a fleeting romance told in a mind-bending first-person chorusTime Zone J is Julie Doucet’s first inked comic since she famously quit in the nineties after an exhausting career in an industry that, at the time, made little room for women.The year is 1989 and twenty-three-year-old Doucet is flying to France to meet with a soldier. He’s a man she only knows through their mail correspondence, a common enough reality of the zine era, when comics were mailed from cartoonist to reader and close relationships were formed. Time is not on their side―the soldier is just on furlough for a few days―but the two make the most of their visit and discuss future plans, maybe even Christmas in Doucet’s city, Montreal.Based on diary entries from the whirlwind romance, the passion and high emotions of youth―before you know the limits of love, before you know the difference between love and lust―seep through the pages. In contrast to the tryst, Doucet draws herself today, at fifty-five.After years of being in a crowd of men, Doucet compulsively returns to drawing, creating an alternate universe that foregrounds women. The pages of Time Zone J overflow with images pulled from past and present, faces and people that have inspired Doucet across more than three decades of creative work.
Perhaps one of the only books to have received a tip of the hat from publications as diverse as "Ms." and "Screw", Dirty Plotte was for eight years a forum for Julie Doucet's irrepressible comics. These intensely-drawn strips explore some of Doucet's deepest and most bizarre fantasies: from masturbation with cookies (given to her by her mother, of course!), to various unlikely scenarios of her life as a man. In later issues, Doucet explored more complex themes: these stories of love, passion, and seemingly endless cycles of bad relationships are told with an unflinching candor and honesty and drawn with Doucet's characteristic eye for obsessive detail.
For the past two years, legendary cartoonist Julie Doucet has spent much of her time in her Montreal studio producing a series of bold lino-cut prints and now for the first time ever they are collected in Long Time Relationship , a beautifully-produced book available exclusively in this cloth edition. The book is divided into six chapters, each focusing on a theme; one is a series of eerily compelling portraits based on a dozen family photographs Doucet found discarded in a garbage can in Berlin. In another series, Doucet explores gender issues as no one else can with twenty hilarious, somewhat unflattering portraits of the "modern man". She deftly explores other themes, ranging from fortune cookies to female sexuality (go figure!), and everything is neatly encompassed in this sharply-designed art book. Julie Doucet is internationally renowned for her wry, sexually-charged work, a sort of "female R. Crumb" of comics. She is the author of four books, including the 2000 Firecracker Award-Winner My New York Diary.
Maxiplotte : en un seul volume de 400 pages, la quasi intégralite de Dirty Plotte (1990-1998), le comix légendaire de Julie Doucet, le réédition de Ciboire de criss ! et de Monkey & The Living Dead, et de nombreuses bandes dessinées inédites, et plus !
Ferocidad e inocencia, actitud punk y costumbrismo, decenas de sueños trasgresores y retazos de vida adolescente en toda su crudeza. Todo eso y mucho más se da cita en este volumen esencial que reúne todos los cómics (muchos de ellos inéditos) realizados por la autora canadiense entre 1986 y 1993.Figura fundamental para entender el trabajo de autores de varias generaciones en todo el mundo (de Chester Brown a Marjane Satrapi, de Joe Matt a Sammy Harkham, de Michel Rabagliati a Powerpaola han reconocido su impronta), Julie Doucet desarrolló desde finales de los años ochenta una obra de carácter eminentemente personal que la convertiría en una de las piezas clave para la consolidación de lo que hoy conocemos como novela gráfica. Sus historias recorren dos vías que confluyen en un único punto: ella misma. Por un lado, en sus relatos de corte onírico, la Doucet da rienda suelta a sus obsesiones, fobias y fantasías, que a menudo tienen que ver con la inversión de los roles masculino y femenino, con la búsqueda de una personalidad propia o con sus anhelos y terrores más íntimos. En el otro, Julie Doucet desarrolla una autobiografía descarnada, sincera y apasionante, aportando al género una hondura emocional pocas veces alcanzada con anterioridad… o posterioridad. La naturalidad y el humor con los que aborda estos asuntos añaden un poso de profundidad a su trabajo que ha impulsado de manera importante el tratamiento de la narración autobiográfica y confesional, más allá incluso del ámbito meramente gráfico. Quienes formamos Fulgencio Pimentel estamos locos de gozo, porque Julie Doucet cambió nuestra forma de leer tebeos, y porque ahora por fin podemos presentar todos los suyos en dos volúmenes y de forma cronológica. Son cómics de importancia artística e histórica, que no solo brillan con luz propia entre los de sus contemporaneos, sino que seguirán influyendo a nuevas generaciones de autores y autoras en años venideros.
The iconic author of My New York Diary returns with a collection of dreamy, collaged photo comicsJulie Doucet is an artist who has mastered many voices and styles, from her landmark and medium-defining early work in comics with her comic book series Dirty Plotte and the classic graphic novel My New York Diary , to her linocut and collage work in Lady Pep and Long Time Relationship . Most recently, Doucet has focused primarily on collage, crafting impeccable zines, prints, and other ephemera. In Carpet Sweeper Tales , her first new book in almost a decade, we see this multifaceted artist combine her many talents into one genre-defying masterwork.Though Doucet stopped drawing comics more than ten years ago, here she revisits the art form, pulling images from 1970s Italian fumetti or photonovels to create her own collage comics. Using vintage women's and home decorating magazines, Doucet collages a unique dialogue of love and travel between characters sitting in classic cars, driving through cities and pristine countryside. This book is the first to combine Doucet's love of collage with her gift at comics storytelling. The result is a collection of lighthearted stories that play upon the disconnects between 1970s imagery and our modern world. Lost in translation, the dialogue is stilted, the characters alien, the mood always playful. Carpet Sweeper Tales is a milestone in a career filled with milestone achievements.
In this issue, Julie gives her views on breast cancer, cannibalism, "man's best friend", and her very first english lesson. Also: terrifying nightmares, attempted suicides, and painful self-portraits. 24 pages. First printing: March 1991; Second printing: July 1992. For mature readers.
Julie Doucet avait promis d’arrêter la bande dessinée et l’autobiographie. Voici qu’elle revient sur ses mots avec une fabuleuse fresque immersive. Nous sommes en 1989, Julie a 23 ans, elle réalise des fanzines qu’elle distribue dans les librairies ou par correspondance. Elle entame alors une relation épistolaire intense avec l’un de ses lecteurs, un Français qui fait son service militaire et qu’elle surnomme « le hussard ». Les deux jeunes gens s’écrivent des centaines de lettres et s’enthousiasment l’un pour l’autre, jusqu’à ce qu’un voyage en Europe leur offre l’occasion de se rencontrer en chair et en os... Suicide total se lit et se déroule comme un flux ininterrompu. Pas de cases, mais des pages saturées dans un entrelacs de visages connus (celui de Julie notamment) et inconnus, d’oiseaux, d’animaux, d’objets variés – le tout dessiné à l’encre – et qui nous emporte comme un fleuve à remonter le temps. La machine est un peu rouillée au début et l’autrice s’exhorte elle-même à dessiner, évoque sa difficulté à manier les mots, avant de plonger – et nous avec elle – dans le flot de ses souvenirs pour ressusciter l’intensité des sentiments passés. Exit les planches et les cases, Suicide total a été dessiné d’un seul tenant. Afin de rendre au mieux cette performance graphique, le livre se présente sous la forme d’un leporello qui se déroule sur près de 20 mètres.
Julie Doucet es probablemente la autora de cómics más influyente de todos los tiempos. Este es el segundo y último volumen conteniendo todos ellos. La artista canadiense marcó una pauta en el cómic autobiográfico que solo encuentra parangón en precedentes como Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman y Harvey Pekar. Impulsora de un discurso visceral que combina vida íntima, fantasía y estética do it yourself, Doucet despliega aquí lo mejor de su producción. Junto a sus títulos más celebrados (Highschool, My New York Diary), este libro incluye cerca de un 40% de material inédito en España, como es el caso del fruto de su colaboración con el cineasta Michel Gondry y de una historia realizada expresamente para estas obras completas, que se convierte en una suerte de testamento y testimonio de su abandono definitivo del medio.Todas las copias del libro incluyen un fanzine de 16 páginas impreso en tinta cian, conteniendo fragmentos de distintas entrevistas e imágenes poco conocidas de su trayectoria.
In 2008, the famed director Michel Gondry ( Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind , Green Hornet , You'll Like This Film Because You're In It ) wrote to legendary cartoonist Julie Doucet (of My New York Diary fame) to propose that they make a film together. Little did Gondry and Doucet know that the process itself would be the film, and they'd soon be starring in a "reality" comic and film of their own devising. They settled on a process that involved inserting the "real" Julie into a landscape of her own drawings. After meeting and filming with Gondry in Brooklyn, Doucet returned to her native Montreal and created dozens of drawings for the scenery, while Gondry, in New York, worked on editing the footage itself. Over time, these two elements were combined, and the result is a magical, funny and touching 20-minute film. My New New York Diary contains all of Doucet's drawings for the film, as well as the DVD containing the film itself. Both the film and Doucet's graphic novella are being released only in this deluxe, hardcover volume from PictureBox, which does full justice to the richness and warmth of Doucet and Gondry's collaboration.
The forces of grime and spotlessness clash in what may be the most unusual showdown in comics, as Julie takes on "Super Clean Plotte". Also: life in New York City; very particular lessons in hygiene; and an unconventional idea for a new lunchtime snack. 24 pages. First printing: October 1991; Second printing: November 1994. Mature readers.
Anthologie des meilleurs récits courts de la célèbre dessinatrice québécoise, parus au Canada et aux USA dans son comix book Dirty Plotte et ailleurs.
The New York Subway is the setting for the lead story in this issue, which deals with heartache, misunderstood phone conversations, mysterious corpses, and lost friends. Each panel in this story is painted in intricate tones of black, white, and grey. Also: Julie finds new uses for motorcycle seats.24 pages. First printing: May 1992. Mature readers.
Renowned cartoonist Julie Doucet has created a unique, mass produced artist’s book. Printed on a half dozen different papers in eight colors, this amalgamation of drawing, collage, painting, and narrative is a visionary meditation on love and its discontents. Using cut out, collaged letters and phrases to compose her oblique, poetic text, Doucet’s words are as graphically enticing as her images. The book moves from pointed collages made from 1960s Quebecois magazines to abstract, psychedelic drawings to a moving catalog of her lover’s possessions, and back again. The diversity of images could be the work of multiple artists, but Doucet’s funny, frank sensibility ties it all together. Doucet, long known as the "female R. Crumb," and regarded as the finest female cartoonist of the 20th century, has never before published a book like a pure, non-comics distillation of her artistic sensibility. This complete work of art will appeal both to fans of her graphic novels—who will appreciate her sense of humor and vivacious drawing—and art aficionados who will be moved and surprised by her skills, and bowled over by her unforgettable images.
This issue's highlight is the 8 page story "The First Time", a frank and harrowing account of Julie's first sexual experience (it has since been reprinted in the book "My New York Diary"). Also: Julie visits a comic book store to use their bathroom facilities, and more bad dreams.24 pages. First printing: September 1993. Mature Readers.
Part one of "My New York Diary" is featured in this issue. Julie arrives in Manhattan on the train and is wooed by her new boyfriend. How sweet it is. Plus: two stories that have not been reprinted in book form: a dream about Nick Cave and Julie as a cowboy shooting up a saloon.
The grand finale of Dirty Plotte features the conclusion of "My New York Diary", in which Julie finally takes care of her blubbering boyfriend. Also in this issue: "Alone Again With Julie Doucet", the hilarious two-pager that was deemed too risque for Details magazine.
The wildly popular Julie Doucet returns! Drawn & Quarterly launches the new limited edition Petit Livre art book series which inexpensively, but with D+Q's signature design and production values, showcases groundbreaking artwork by cartoonists and artists from around the globe. Petits Livres make art books affordable, and therefore accessible to all fans. Similar to Julie Doucet's Long Time Relationship, Lady Pep collects Julie's post-comics career illustrations, lino-cut, and collage work from various projects including her obscure Sophie Punt handmade-magazine.
Monkey and the Living Dead fait partie des histoires les plus oniriques et les plus underground de Julie Doucet.Un chat obsédé sexuel s'éprend d'une petite chatte ingénie et perverse...
This issue features Doucet's first full length feature story. "Julie In Junior College" details her early days in art college, as she encounters the nightmares of color-gradation scales, basket weaving, and her first experiences with strange men. This story was reprinted in the book "My New York Diary".24 pages. First printing: April 1995.