Dirty Plotte (1991)

Julie Doucet's photocopied Dirty Plotte minicomics, from September 1988 Julie Doucet was working part-time at a Montreal copy shop when she realized she could make her own comics on its Xerox machine. Dirty Plotte began in September 1988 in runs of 150 to 200 copies, and in January 1991 Drawn & Quarterly took it on as a regular series. Her frank, funny, unapologetically gross diary comics about periods, sex and dreams still feel braver than most of what followed, and they showed that a minicomic could carry a voice nobody else would print. Dirty Plotte: The Complete Julie Doucet, from Drawn & Quarterly, gathers the work.