Dirty Plotte

Dirty Plotte
The cover of Dirty Plotte #1 (Jan. 1991), by Julie Doucet
Publication information
PublisherDrawn & Quarterly
ScheduleIrregular
Publication dateJan. 1991 - Aug. 1998
No. of issues12
Main character(s)Julie
Creative team
Created byJulie Doucet
Written byJulie Doucet
Artist(s)Julie Doucet
Collected editions
My New York DiaryISBN 978-1896597232

Dirty Plotte is a comic book series by Julie Doucet,[1] published by Drawn & Quarterly 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 summed up the comic this way:

These were the things that Dirty Plotte was about: the isolation of being a driven female creative; the jealousy in personal relationships that come out of that; the ever-present push from the outside to be maternal and nurturing, but the absolute interior knowledge that that is not your way; and the incredibly shifting sense of gender that a strong, smart woman must feel in order to move about in the world.[2]

  1. ^ "Dirty Plotte 1". drawnandquarterly.com. Drawn & Quarterly. 1991. Retrieved December 22, 2014.
  2. ^ Moore, Anne Elizabeth. "RAVE ON: ANNE ELIZABETH MOORE ON DIRTY PLOTTE," Bitch Media (August 2, 2009).