Julie Doucet

See also: Doucet

Julie Doucet , born with Saint-Lambert (Quebec) the December 31st 1965 is an author of Québécois Cartoon.

She studies the visual arts in Cegep of the Montreal Old man to the beginning of the year 1980. It is there that she discovers the cartoon. She is registered then with the Université from Quebec in Montreal where she studies graphic arts (art of the impression) and plastics. She makes her beginnings in number 2 of the review Tchiize! ((a)) published by Yves Millet in the middle of the Years 1980. She collaborates then in the Body (become Mac Tin TAC ) and in Rectangle , two reviews which will see hatching a whole generation of authors major Québécois “undergrounds”.

In 1988 (and until 1990), Julie Doucet creates her Fanzine, Dirty Plotte (14 numbers). She tells there her dreams, which she notes, and its imaginations or its anguishes, by not being never afraid to shock - its decency takes a form inatendue: whereas it evokes without problem of the subjects such as sexuality or the menstruations, it will always avoid speaking about its family or her friends.
Ses pages is taken again by reviews like Heck! , RIP-Off Comix , Wimmen Comix , Buzzard , Weirdo (founded by Robert Crumb) or in France Jackal Puant (founded by Stephan Blanquet).

In 1990, the founder of the publisher Drawn and Quarterly, Chris Oliveros, publishes Dirty Plotte in the form of comic-book. It is the starting point of an important recognition for Julie Doucet who is then admired by authors such as Robert Crumb, Charles Burns or Art Spiegelman. She emigrates a time with New York, returns to Montreal, leaves food a few years to Berlin before returning again to Montreal.

After the exit of the Business Mrs Paul , Julie Doucet announces that it gives up band-drawn. The news is initially accommodated by its readers with skepticism and incredulity, but six years afterwards, it seems that its resolution is firm.

Works published in France

• Monkey and the living room dead , ED. Puant jackal, 1994
• Ciborium of criss! , ED Association, 1996
• Changes of address , ED Association, 1998
• Monkey and the living room dead" , (republication) ED Association, 1999
• the Business Mrs Paul , ED Association, 2000
• Chronic of New York , ED Threshold, 2003
• " Journal" , ED Association, 2003
• " J like Je" , ED Threshold, 2005