During her studies, she discovered comics and began publishing a photocopied fanzine: Dirty Plotte, in which she documented her daily life, her dreams and her anxieties in French and English The title was picked up in 1991 by the Montreal-based publisher Drawn & Quarterly, and, after living in New York, Seattle and Berlin, Julie Doucet[...]
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Julie Doucet is a semi-autobiographical cartoonist best known for her comic book series Dirty Plotte, self-published in the late eighties, then picked up in the nineties by Canadian publisher Drawn & Quarterly But she dropped out of the medium, returning sporadically, but telling the Montreal Mirror
I quit comics because I got completely sick of it[...]