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{{short description|Comic book series by Julie Doucet}}
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| caption =The cover of ''Dirty Plotte'' #1 (Jan. 1991), by [[Julie Doucet]]
| schedule = Irregular
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| publisher = [[Drawn & Quarterly]]
| date = Jan. [[1991 in comics|1991]] - Aug. [[1998 in comics|1998]]
| issues = 12
| main_char_team = Julie
| writers = [[Julie Doucet]]
| artists = [[Julie Doucet]]
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| creators = [[Julie Doucet]]
| TPB = My New York Diary
| ISBN =978-1896597232
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| subcat=Drawn & Quarterly
| sort=Dirty Plotte
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'''''Dirty Plotte''''' is a [[comic book]] series by [[Julie Doucet]],<ref>{{cite web |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |year=1991 |title=Dirty Plotte 1 |url=https://www.drawnandquarterly.com/dirty-plotte-01 |website=drawnandquarterly.com |publisher=Drawn & Quarterly |accessdate=December 22, 2014 }}</ref> 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:
{{quote|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.<ref>Moore, Anne Elizabeth. [https://bitchmedia.org/post/rave-on-anne-elizabeth-moore-on-dirty-plotte "RAVE ON: ANNE ELIZABETH MOORE ON DIRTY PLOTTE,"] ''Bitch Media'' (August 2, 2009).</ref>}}

== Publication history ==
''Dirty Plotte'' began as a self-published photocopied [[zine]] used to record Doucet's "day to day life, her dreams, angsts, [and] fantasies."<ref name=autobio>[http://www.juliedoucet.net/html/bio.html Julie Doucet's biography at her website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090805162952/http://www.juliedoucet.net/html/bio.html |date=2009-08-05 }}</ref> Doucet published 12 issues of the ''Dirty Plotte'' [[minicomic]] between 1988 and 1989.<ref name=plottemini>[http://www.comics.org/series.lasso?SeriesID=29488 Dirty Plotte mini-comics at the GCD]</ref>

It was only when Doucet was published in [[Robert Crumb]]'s magazine, ''[[Weirdo (magazine)|Weirdo]]'',<ref name=weirdo26>[http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=46772 Weirdo #26 at the GCD]</ref> that she began to attract critical attention.<ref name=onset>[[Mark Shainblum|Shainblum, Mark]]: "Canada's Alternative Comic Creators Stand Up For Themselves", ''Onset'', volume 1 issue 4 (page25)</ref> [[Drawn & Quarterly]] (like Doucet, based in Montreal) began publishing Doucet in January 1991 in a regular sized comic series also named ''Dirty Plotte''.<ref name=plottegcd /> ''Dirty Plotte'' was the first ongoing solo title published by Drawn & Quarterly.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bell |first=John |date=2006|title=Invaders from the North: How Canada Conquered the Comic Book Universe|location=Toronto|publisher=Dundurn Press|page=176|ISBN=978-1-55002-659-7}}</ref>

Drawn & Quarterly published 4 issues of ''Dirty Plotte'' in 1991 (with much of the content being reprints of material that had appeared in the mini), but afterwards new issues were published once per year. Doucet played with the title of the series near the end, with individual issues called such things as ''Purty Plotte'' and ''Purity Plotte''.<ref name=plottegcd>{{gcdb series|id=13917|title=Dirty Plotte}}.</ref>

Many of the autobiographical stories from ''Dirty Plotte'' were collected in the trade paperback ''My New York Diary'' (Drawn & Quarterly, 1999), which won the 2000 [[Firecracker Alternative Book Award|Firecracker Award]] for best graphic novel.<ref name=firecracker>{{cite web|url=http://www.readersread.com/awards/firecracker.htm|title=Firecracker Alternative Book Awards|work=ReadersRead.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304133738/http://www.readersread.com/awards/firecracker.htm|archive-date=Mar 4, 2009}}</ref>

== Issues ==
* ''Dirty Plotte'' (mini-comic) 12 issues between 1988 and 1989<ref name="plottemini"/>
* ''Dirty Plotte'' <nowiki>#</nowiki> 1 (January 1991)
* ''Dirty Plotte'' <nowiki>#</nowiki> 2 (March 1991)
* ''Dirty Plotte'' <nowiki>#</nowiki> 3 (July 1991)
* ''Dirty Plotte'' <nowiki>#</nowiki> 4 (October 1991)
* ''Dirty Plotte'' <nowiki>#</nowiki> 5 (May 1992)
* ''Dirty Plotte'' <nowiki>#</nowiki> 6 (January 1993)
* ''Dirty Plotte'' <nowiki>#</nowiki> 7 (September 1993)
* ''Dirty Plotte'' <nowiki>#</nowiki> 8 (February 1994)
* ''Dirty Plotte'' <nowiki>#</nowiki> 9 (April 1995)
* ''Dirty Plotte'' <nowiki>#</nowiki> 10 (December 1996)
* ''Dirty Plotte'' <nowiki>#</nowiki> 11 (September 1997)
* ''Dirty Plotte'' <nowiki>#</nowiki> 12 (August 1998)

== Awards and honors ==
In 1991, ''Dirty Plotte'' was nominated for the [[Harvey Awards|Harvey Award]] for Best New Series (Doucet won the Harvey for "[[List of Harvey Award winners#Best New Talent|Best New Talent]]").<ref name=harvey>{{cite web|url=http://www.harveyawards.org/awards_1991win.html |title=Harvey Award Winners 1991|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101109200822/http://www.harveyawards.org/awards_1991win.html |archive-date=2010-11-09 |work=Harvey Awards website}}</ref><ref name=awardslist>{{cite web|url=http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/harvey91.php |title=1991 Harvey Awards list |work=Comic Book Awards Almanac|publisher=Hahn Library}}</ref> In 1999, when ''[[The Comics Journal]]'' made a list of the top 100 comics of all time, ''Dirty Plotte'' ranked 96th.<ref name=comicsjournal100>{{cite news|url=http://tcj.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=74&Itemid=70 |title=A Glimpse Behind the Curtain: Nominations for the Journal's Top 100|first=Darren|last= Hick   
|date=15 February 1999 |work=The Comics Journal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070724170735/http://tcj.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=74&Itemid=70|archive-date=Jul 24, 2007}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Comics|Feminism}}
* [[List of feminist comic books]]
* [[Portrayal of women in comics]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.drawnandquarterly.com/dirty-plotte-01 ''Dirty Plotte'' #1] at the Drawn & Quarterly website
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