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.

[4] It was only when Doucet was published in Robert Crumb's magazine, Weirdo,[5] that she began to attract critical attention.

[7] 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 Award for best graphic novel.