'Raghnarok'.
Boulet is a French artist of humorous comics. He is best-known as the author of the fantasy comic 'Raghnarok' (2001-2009) and for continuing the series 'Donjon Zénith'. Boulet also collaborated with Reno ('Womoks', 2001-2004) and Pénélope Bagieu ('La Page Blanche', 2012). From July 2004 on, he was one of the first French cartoonists to become famous by publishing comics on a weblog.
Early life and career
He was born in 1975 in Meaux, not far from Paris, as Gilles Roussel. Boulet first studied art in Dijon and then at the Graduate School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg, where he graduated in 2000. His fellow graduates that year were Erwann Surcouf, Lisa Mandel, Lucie Albon, Reno and Nicolas Wild. One of Boulet's graphic influences was Guillermo Mordillo.
His work was noticed by comic book artist Zep, who introduced him in the pages of the new comic magazine Tchô! in 1998. His first claim to fame was the fantasy humor comic about the little dragon 'Raghnarok', published book format by Glénat from 2001 to 2009. His other Tchô! features were also collected in books, such as 'La Rubrique Scientifique' (2002-2005), 'Le Miya' (2005) and 'Womoks' (with art by Reno, 2001-2004). Boulet has also made occasional appearances in Psikopat and Spirou.
'La Rubrique Scientifique'.
Bouletcorp weblog
In July 2004, Boulet launched his weblog, Bouletcorp.com. His posted comics quickly gained a wide internet following and since 2008, they were also published in print in the series 'Notes'. He is one of the initiators of the annual Comics Blog Festival in Paris, of which the first edition was held in 2005. In 2006, he co-founded the collective blog Chicou-Chicou with Domitille Collardey, Olivier Tallac and Aude Picault, and the group was later joined by Lisa Mandel, Erwann Surcouf and Ohm. The blog was terminated in 2008, after which Delcourt released a book with the published comics. Boulet's is also active on Twitter. In 2012, Glénat even went as far as to collect his tweets in book format.
'I Want To Believe', a short story posted on Boulet's blog on 2 October 2015.
Later comics work
Boulet succeeded Lewis Trondheim on the comic series 'Donjon Zénith', and made the two final books of the series from scripts by Trondheim and Joann Sfar in 2006 and 2007. He additionally made the graphic novel 'La Page Blanche' for Pénélope Bagieu at Delcourt in 2011. Boulet also participated in several collective projects, such as 'Boule de Neige' (Delcourt, 2007), 'Papier' (Delcourt, 2014), 'Axolot' (Delcourt, 2014) and 'Le Jour où ça Bascule' (Les Humanoïdes Associés, 2015). He made the illustrations for the children's book 'Augie and the Green Knight' by the American author Zach Weiner, which was published after a successful crowdfunding campaign in 2014.
'Donjon Zenith' #6.