Boulet (comics)

French comic book creator and cartoonist


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::summary French comic book creator and cartoonist ::

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websitehttp://www.bouletcorp.com
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Biography

Roussel studied art at the Graduate School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg. In 2001, he published his first comic strip, Raghnarok. He then started a cartoon blog on the internet in July 2004, which made him well known in France. Since then, he has worked for French comics strip magazine Tchô ! and Psikopat, and on many others as an author or cartoonist. He replaced Lewis Trondheim as cartoonist of the comic strip Donjon Zénith.

The popularity of his blog allowed him to become the first "Godfather" of the newly created Paris Comic Strip Blog Festival (Festival des blogs BD), in 2005.

The drawings from his blog were first published in 2008, entitled "Notes". Eleven volumes have been published as of November 2021.

Roussel participated in the French-speaking 24-hour comics day in Montreal in 2008.

He started an English version of his blog in November 2009, where he republished all of his posts from the French blog from its start in 2004 in chronological order, at the rate of three posts per week.

In 2017, Boulet started a collaboration with the publisher Delcourt in order to produce Project Octopus, a collection of scientific comic books evoking subjects as diverse as the exploration of Mars to philosophy. Four to five books a year are planned to be released under this project. These books are written and drawn by artists such as Florence Porcel, Erwann Surcouf, and Héloïse Chochois, but are edited by Boulet.

Bibliography

  1. Dragon Junior, published by Glénat, 2001
  2. Fées et gestes, 2002
  3. Terreurs de la nature, 2003
  4. Légendes urbaines, 2005
  5. Tempus fugit, 2007
  6. Casus Belli, 2009
  1. Tome 1, 2002
  2. Tome 2, 2004
  3. Tome 3, 2005
  • Womoks, with Reno, published by Glénat
  1. Mutant suspends ton vol !, 2001
  2. Le Croiseur s'amuse, 2002
  3. Albon, les brutes et les truands, 2004
  1. Le vœu de Marc with Nicolas Wild, 2005
  2. Le vœu de Simon with Lucie Albon, 2007
  1. Born to be a larve (July 2004 - July 2005), 2008
  2. Le petit théâtre de la rue (July 2005 - July 2006), 2009
  3. La viande, c'est la force (July 2006 - July 2007), 2009
  4. Songe est Mensonge (July 2007 - July 2008), 2010
  5. Quelques minutes avant la fin du monde (July 2008 – July 2009), 2011.
  6. Debout mes globules (July 2009 – July 2010), 2011.
  7. Formicapunk (July 2010 – July 2011), 2012.
  8. Les 24 heures (Angoulême festival 24-hour comic contest), 2013.
  9. Peu d'or et moult gueule, (July 2011 – July 2013), 2014.
  10. Le Pixel quantique, 2016
  11. Un royaume magique, 2018
  • Chicou Chicou with Lisa Mandel / Juan, Aude Picault / Claude, Domitille Collarday / Frédé, Erwann Surcouf / Fern and Boulet / Ella, published by Delcourt, 2008
  • La page blanche (writer) with Pénélope Bagieu, published by Delcourt, 2013
  • Bolchoi Arena (writer), with Aseyn (cartoonist), Delcourt, coll. « Hors Collection » :
  1. Caelum incognito, 2018
  2. La Somnambule, 2020

Other books

Notes

References


References

  1. "Alexa shows "online since : 21 July 2001"". Alexa.com.
  2. "Festiblog 2011 = Festival des Blogs BD et du Webcomics -> Festival de la BD numérique et de la BD du web: 02) Festiblogs 2005 à 2010". Festival-blogs-bd.com.
  3. "Dessin du 3 septembre 2008 du blog de Boulet".
  4. link. (April 4, 2010)
  5. "English version". Bouletcorp.com.
  6. Lachasse, Jérôme. (2017-04-16). "Boulet présente Octopus, sa nouvelle collection savante: "L'émerveillement est au cœur du projet"". [[BFM TV]].

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