Dirty Plotte

    (Drawn and Quarterly, 1990-1996)
©1991 Julie Doucet

Dirty Plotte was created in 1990 by Julie Doucet and partially sponsored by a grant from Quebec’s Ministry of Culture. It’s one of the more bleak alternative comics out there, calling to mind the sort of comic a female R. Crumb might make. Freud would have a field day here.

Typical of its sequences are “A Day in the Julie Doucet’s Life;” wherein Julie spends 42 panels swearing at her alarm clock, mumbling incoherently at her refrigerator, zoning out at the kitchen table, laughing maniacally at a spoon, etc. This is followed by a strangely disturbing dream story involving spaceships, mom, cookies, and solo sex acts.

A running series in this title is “Monkey and the Living Dead,” in which a black, balloon-faced woman naively lives out life in a mean world filled with drooling men, go-go dancers, and assorted acts of depravity.
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    #1 - 2nd printing
    2nd Printing Cover by Julie Doucet
    Jun 1992
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    W: Julie Doucet
    Adult; B&W
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  • 2
    #2
    Mar 1991
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    Adult; B&W
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    #2 - 2nd printing
    2nd Printing Cover by Julie Doucet
    Jul 1992
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    Adult; B&W
    1 copy for $8.98
  • 3
    #3
    Apr 1991
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    Adult; B&W
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    #3 - 2nd printing
    2nd Printing Cover by Julie Doucet
    Dec 1992
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    W: Julie Doucet  ·  A: Julie Doucet
    Adult; B&W
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    #4
    Sep 1991
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    Adult; B&W
    1 copy for $11.98
  • 4-2
    #4 - 2nd printing
    2nd Printing Cover by Julie Doucet
    Nov 1994
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    W: Julie Doucet  ·  A: Julie Doucet
    Adult; B&W
    1 copy for $8.98
  • 5
    #5
    May 1992
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    Adult; B&W
    2 copies from $16.98
  • 6
    #6
    Jan 1993
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    W: Julie Doucet  ·  A: Julie Doucet
    Adult; B&W
    2 copies from $26.98
  • 7
    #7
    Sep 1993
    Cover: $2.95
    W: Julie Doucet  ·  A: Julie Doucet
    Adult; B&W
    1 copy for $11.98
  • 8
    #8
    Feb 1994
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    W: Julie Doucet  ·  A: Julie Doucet
    Adult; B&W
    2 copies from $21.98
  • 9
    #9
    Cover says Purty Plotte
    Apr 1995
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    W: Julie Doucet  ·  A: Julie Doucet
    Adult; B&W
    1 copy for $26.98
  • 10
    #10
    Cover says Purity Plotte
    Nov 1996
    Cover: $3.50
    W: Julie Doucet  ·  A: Julie Doucet
    Adult; B&W
    2 copies from $26.98
  • 11
    #11
    Sep 1997
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    W: Julie Doucet, Berend Vonk, Matti Hagelberg  ·  A: Julie Doucet, Berend Vonk, Matti Hagelberg
    Adult; B&W
    1 copy for $81.98
  • 12
    #12
    Cover says Purty Plotte
    Aug 1998
    Cover: $3.50
    W: Julie Doucet  ·  A: Julie Doucet
    Adult; B&W
    1 copy for $49.95