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Artist Bio - JULIE DOUCET


Julie Doucet is best known as author of Dirty Plotte, the title she's worked on for the past eight years, first as a self-published mini-comic and later as a regular full-size series. Her initial foray into the manly world of comics earned Doucet a Harvey Award in 1991 for Best New Talent. Doucet's work, characterized by its intense, obsessively-detailed drawing style and sometimes unsettling subject matter, has always been controversial: several of her comics have been seized by customs officials in Canada and England, at a time when The New York Times called her "a widely admired young cartoonist".

Doucet, who was born in 1965 in Montreal, has had three books published, Lift Your Leg, My Fish Is Dead! (1993), My Most Secret Desire (1995), and My New York Diary (1999) and translated editions of her comics have appeared in France, Germany and Finland. Outside of print, her original art has been exhibited in several cities in the United States, Canada, France, and Portugal. Keeping up with all of this, Doucet is currently living in Montreal, where she is currently writing and drawing a 60-page story, "The Madame Paul Affair", which will be published by D&Q in 2000.

1965: Born on December 31st in Montreal.

1970: As a child, Doucet reads Tintin, Asterix, "Rubrique-A-Brac", by Gotlib, and "Le Concombre Masqué", by Nikita Mandryka.

1977: Attends an all-girls Catholic high school in St. Lambert, a Montreal suburb.

1983: Enrolls in the Fine Arts program at the College du Vieux Montreal.Reads work of French cartoonist F'murr and is inspired to draw comics.

1985: Graduates from College du Vieux Montréal. - Enrolls at Université du Québec à Montréal.

1986: Reads "pirated" R. Crumb, translated in "Quebec French".

1987: Self-publishes first Dirty Plotte mini-comic. - Graduates from Université du Québec à Montréal with a B.A. in Fine Arts.

1989: First strip in American anthology is published (Heck; Comic Art of The Late 1980's).

1990: Dirty Plotte # 1 is published by Drawn & Quarterly Receives first grant from Quebec government.

1991: Wins Harvey Award for Best New Talent.Receives second grant from Quebec government.Leaves Montreal and moves to New York City.Illustration work for The Village Voice, The New York Press, and The L.A. Weekly.Artwork featured in "Misfit Lit" exhibition in Seattle.

1992: Leaves New York City and moves to Seattle. Artwork featured in Angouleme exhibition.

1993: Lift Your Leg, My Fish Is Dead! is published by Drawn & Quarterly.

1995: My Most Secret Desire is published by Drawn & Quarterly.Artwork featured in D&Q exhibition at Porto Comics Festival in Portugal.Moves to Berlin.

1996: Artwork featured in D&Q exhibition at Haarlem Comics Festival in Holland.Artwork featured in group show at Helsinki Comics Festival in Finland.

1997: Artwork featured in group show in Brussels, Belgium.

1998: First French book is nominated for "Best Foreign Edition" at Angouleme Festival in France.Final issue of Dirty Plotte (#12) is published.Artwork featured in D&Q exhibition at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles.Artwork featured in D&Q exhibition at Helsinki Comics Festival in Finland(second time).Moves back to Montreal.

1999: Serializes story "The Madame Paul Affair" in "Ici", a Montreal French language weekly newspaper.Visits Belgrade a few weeks before NATO bombing campaign.Receives third grant from Quebec government.My New York Diary is published by Drawn & Quarterly.



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