I quit comics because I got completely sick of it. I was drawing comics all the time and didn't have the time or energy to do anything else. That got to me in the end.

She 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. Although Julie Doucet moved to Seattle the following year her experiences in New York formed the basis of the critically acclaimed My New York Diary. Also in spring of 2006 Julie Doucet had her first solo print show named en souvenir du Melek at the galerie B-312 in Montreal.

Julie Doucet (born December 31 1965 in Montreal Quebec Canada) is a Canadian former underground cartoonist and artist best known for her autobiographical works such as Dirty Plotte and My New York Diary. Her work is concerned with such topics as "sex violence menstruation and male/female issues.