comic book
A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are of ...
series by
Julie Doucet
Julie Doucet (born December 31, 1965) is a Canadian
Drawn & Quarterly
Drawn & Quarterly is a publishing company based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, specializing in comics. It publishes primarily comic books, graphic novels and comic strip collections. The books it publishes are noted for their artistic content, ...
from 1991–1998.
Most of the oddball stories in ''Dirty Plotte'' were autobiographical, often about the struggles of being a woman and being an alternative cartoonist. Author
Anne Elizabeth Moore
Anne Elizabeth Moore (born 1971 in Winner, North Dakota) is an American cultural critic, artist, journalist, and editor. She is well known for her books Sweet Little Cunt (2018), Gentrifier: A Memoir (2021), and Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Mis ...
summed up the comic this way:
Publication history
''Dirty Plotte'' began as a self-published photocopied
zine
A zine ( ; short for '' magazine'' or '' fanzine'') is a small-circulation self-published
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used to record Doucet's "day to day life, her dreams, angsts, ndfantasies."Julie Doucet's biography at her website Doucet published 12 issues of the ''Dirty Plotte''
minicomic
A minicomic is a creator-published comic book, often photocopied and stapled or with a handmade binding. In the United Kingdom and Europe the term small press comic is equivalent with minicomic, reserved for those publications measuring A6 (105& ...
Robert Crumb
Robert Dennis Crumb (; born August 30, 1943) is an American cartoonist and musician who often signs his work R. Crumb. His work displays a nostalgia for American folk culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and satire of contem ...
's magazine, '' Weirdo'',Weirdo #26 at the GCD /ref> that she began to attract critical attention.Shainblum, Mark: "Canada's Alternative Comic Creators Stand Up For Themselves", ''Onset'', volume 1 issue 4 (page25)
Drawn & Quarterly
Drawn & Quarterly is a publishing company based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, specializing in comics. It publishes primarily comic books, graphic novels and comic strip collections. The books it publishes are noted for their artistic content, ...
(like Doucet, based in Montreal) began publishing Doucet in January 1991 in a regular sized comic series also named ''Dirty Plotte''. ''Dirty Plotte'' was the first ongoing solo title published by Drawn & Quarterly.Bell, John (2006). ''Invaders from the North: How Canada Conquered the Comic Book Universe''. (Toronto: Dundurn Press), p. 176. .
Drawn & Quarterly published 4 issues of ''Dirty Plotte'' in 1991 (with much of the content being reprints of material that had appeared in the mini), but afterwards new issues were published once per year. Doucet played with the title of the series near the end, with individual issues called such things as ''Purty Plotte'' and ''Purity Plotte''..
Many of the autobiographical stories from ''Dirty Plotte'' were collected in the trade paperback ''My New York Diary'' (Drawn & Quarterly, 1999), which won the 2000 Firecracker Award for best graphic novel.Firecracker Award winners /ref>
Harvey Award
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for Best New Series (Doucet won the Harvey for "
Best New Talent
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The Comics Journal
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List of feminist comic books
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Portrayal of women in comics
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