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Boulet's Notes: Back In Time from Oni Press

Oni Press is publishing Boulet's Notes: Back in Time, a hardcover collection of French cartoonist Boulet’s comic strips and cartoons.

Published Thu, 14 Dec 2023 10:57:07 -0600

by Rich Johnston

Last updated Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:21:47 -0600

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Oni Press is publishing Boulet's Notes: Back in Time, a hardcover collection of French cartoonist Boulet's comic strips and observational cartoons, showcasing work that initially debuted on his blog before going international. From dating to pop culture to big city living, Boulet has made mock for nearly two decades, and now Boulet's Notes: Back in Time collects a selection created between 2004-2007. The one below was not, it's more recent, but it makes for good illustration.

Since 2004, the French cartoonist Boulet (Dungeon: Zenith) has kept an online comic diary of his adventures and reflections of everyday life. Pulled from his sketchbooks and posted on his blog, these often-witty observational comics brought Boulet a whole new audience thanks to his canny habit of posting multilingual versions of each story. Turns out, commentary on dating, pop culture, and big-city life is universal—even if the big city in question is Paris, France! "Boulet's improvisational, imaginative, and insanely creative comic strips have been a key part of the world of webcomics since he started posting them online way back in the early 2000s," says translator and editor François Vigneault. "This new collection, featuring a curated and newly-translated selection of his work from the early years, is truly a ticket back in time to the start of the webcomics era!" Boulet was born and raised in France where he studied art in Dijon and Strasbourg. He started working in comics in the early 2000s and published a dozen books for young readers before creating bouletcorp.com, his world-renowned website which got adapted in a series of eleven best-selling comic books. He also worked on the critically acclaimed French series Dungeon with Lewis Trondheim and Joann Sfar. He currently lives in Paris, working in comics, illustration and animation.