Boulet (comics)

Boulet, the pen name for Gilles Roussel (French pronunciation:[bulɛ]^ⓘ), is a Frenchcomic book creator and cartoonist born 1 February 1975 in Meaux, France. He was among the first French cartoonists to become famous by publishing a blog BD, starting in July 2004.

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,^[1] 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"^[2] 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".^[3] Eleven volumes have been published as of November 2021.

Roussel participated in the French-speaking24-hour comics day in Montreal in 2008.^[4]

He started an English version of his blog in November 2009,^[5] 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.^[6]

• Ragnarök , publicado por Glénat

1. Dragón Junior , publicado por Glénat, 2001 ISBN 2-7234-3416-8
2. Fées et gestes , 2002 ISBN 2-7234-3695-0
3. Terreurs de la naturaleza , 2003 ISBN 2-7234-4199-7
4. Leyendas urbanas , 2005 ISBN 2-7234-4679-4
5. Tempus fugit , 2007 ISBN 978-2-7234-5404-9
6. Casus Belli , 2009 ISBN 978-2-7234-6309-6

• La Rubrique Scientifique , publicado por Glénat

1. Tomo 1 , ISBN 2002 2-7234-4006-0
2. Tomo 2 , 2004 ISBN 2-7234-4200-4
3. Tomo 3 , 2005 ISBN 2-7234-5094-5

• Womoks , con Reno, publicado por Glénat

1. Mutante suspende ton vol  ! , 2001 ISBN 2-7234-3570-9
2. Le Croiseur s'amuse , 2002 ISBN 2-7234-3776-0
3. Albon, les brutes et les truands , 2004 ISBN 2-7234-4202-0

• Le vœu de... (guión), con Lucie Albon (dibujo), publicado por La boîte à bulles

1. Le vœu de Marc con Nicolas Wild , 2005 ISBN 2-84953-028-X
2. Le vœu de Simon con Lucie Albon, 2007 ISBN 978-2-84953-042-9

• Le Miya con Reno y Libon, publicado por Glénat, 2005 ISBN 2-7234-5206-9
• Donjon Zénith (caricaturista), junto con Lewis Trondheim , Joann Sfar (coautores) y Lucie Albon (colorista), publicado por Delcourt.
  • 5. Un matrimonio en parte , 2006 ISBN 2-84055-734-7
  • 6. Retorno en fanfarria , 2007 ISBN 978-2-7560-0596-6
  • 7. Hors des remparts , 2020
• Jour de neige en Boule de neige con Lewis Trondheim , Mathieu Sapin y Lisa Mandel publicado por Delcourt , 2007
• Notas , colección Lavado con champú , publicada por Delcourt

1. Nacido para ser una larva (julio de 2004 - julio de 2005), 2008
2. Le petit théâtre de la rue (julio de 2005 - julio de 2006), 2009
3. La viande, c'est la force (julio 2006 - julio 2007), 2009
4. Songe est Mensonge (julio de 2007 - julio de 2008), 2010
5. Quelques minutes avant la fin du monde (julio de 2008 – julio de 2009), 2011.
6. Debout mes globules (julio de 2009 – julio de 2010), 2011.
7. Formicapunk (julio de 2010 – julio de 2011), 2012.
8. Les 24 heures ( Concurso de cómic de 24 horas del festival de Angulema ), 2013.
9. Peu d'or et moult gueule , (julio de 2011 – julio de 2013), 2014.
10. Le Pixel quantique , 2016
11. Un reino mágico , 2018

• Chicou Chicou con Lisa Mandel / Juan, Aude Picault / Claude, Domitille Collarday / Frédé, Erwann Surcouf / Fern y Boulet / Ella, publicado por Delcourt , 2008
• La página blanca (escritora) con Pénélope Bagieu , publicado por Delcourt , 2013
• Bolchoi Arena (escritor), con Aseyn (caricaturista), Delcourt, coll. «  Hors Collection  »  :

1. Caelum incognito , 2018
2. La Somnambule , 2020

• Lista de dibujantes

• Blog oficial (en francés)