1. Julie Doucet was born on December 31,1965 and is a Canadian underground cartoonist and artist, best known for her autobiographical works such as Dirty Plotte and My New York Diary.
11 Facts About Julie Doucet
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Julie Doucet was educated at an all-girls Catholic school, studied fine arts at Cegep du Vieux Montreal, then attended Universite du Quebec a Montreal.
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Julie Doucet was published in small-press comics and self-published her own comic called Dirty Plotte.
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Julie Doucet moved from Seattle to Berlin in 1995, before finally returning to Montreal in 1998.
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Julie Doucet returned to the field in 2000 with The Madame Paul Affair, a slice-of-life look at contemporary Montreal which was originally serialized in Ici-Montreal, a local alternative weekly.
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In 2004, Julie Doucet published in French an illustrated diary chronicling a year of her life and, in 2006, an autobiography made from a collage of words cut from magazines and newspapers.
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Julie Doucet remained a fixture in the Montreal arts community, but in an interview in the June 22,2006, edition of the Montreal Mirror, she declared that she had retired from long-form comics.
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Julie Doucet had a book of poetry published by L'Oie de Cravan in 2006, A l'ecole de l'amour.
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In 2007, Julie Doucet designed the cover for the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women.
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In 1991, Dirty Plotte was nominated for best new series and Julie Doucet won the Harvey Award for "Best New Talent".
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Julie Doucet is only the third woman to win the award.