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Boum
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Award-winning cartoonist • Author of THE JELLYFISH, BOUMERIES, A SMALL REVOLUTION & others • (she/her) • FR/EN 🇫🇷🇨🇦

https://www.boumfolio.com • https://www.patreon.com/boum
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Boum @boum.bsky.social · Oct 17
Hi! I'm Boum, a cartoonist! Comics and video games are my jam!

⭐️ Portfolio: boumfolio.com
⭐️ Patreon: patreon.com/boum
⭐️ Facebook: facebook.com/Boumeries
⭐️ Instagram: instagram.com/boumerie
A fanart of Jinx, from the Arcane series. She's kneeling and looking at the camera, a hurt look in her eyes. The lighting is bright pink. An illustration in green and pink neon hues of my original character, Odette, looking at a machine to order soba noodles in a small backstreet in Japan. An illustration of a very detailed convenience store in the 1990s, in pinks and purples. The cashier leans against the counter looking bored. The shelves are full of items like bubble gum, chocolate bars, and cigarettes. The cover of my graphic novel, The Jellyfish. It's in purple tones. The drawing features the main character, Odette, seen from the bust up. Odette looks annoyed and depressed while a black jellyfish covers their left eye, its long tentacles reaching outside of the page.
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Freelancing is great because I can take a day off whenever I want AND feel so guilty about doing it that instead of resting, I get to wander around the house all day thinking "I should be working"
November 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Disclaimer: she didn't want me to stop making comics about her.

#comics
#boumeries
A 5-panel comic, the last one from the 2019 Montreal Comic Arts Festival. I'm asking my friend Cab to please take my 6yo daughter to the restroom while I stay at my table. When they both step inside the main festival building, there's someone speaking on a mic, "When referring to fantasy in comics, ..." so Cab tells my daughter "There's a panel going on, let's be quiet!" They walk in in silence but then the panel moderator looks at my kid and just says into the mic "Hey, is that Margot?" so Cab says yes, and my daughter is shocked. Then the entire audience and panelists say hello to her, using her name. When she comes back to the table, she tells me "All your friends know who I am!" And I apologize.
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
boum.bsky.social
Disclaimer: she didn't want me to stop making comics about her.

#comics
#boumeries
A 5-panel comic, the last one from the 2019 Montreal Comic Arts Festival. I'm asking my friend Cab to please take my 6yo daughter to the restroom while I stay at my table. When they both step inside the main festival building, there's someone speaking on a mic, "When referring to fantasy in comics, ..." so Cab tells my daughter "There's a panel going on, let's be quiet!" They walk in in silence but then the panel moderator looks at my kid and just says into the mic "Hey, is that Margot?" so Cab says yes, and my daughter is shocked. Then the entire audience and panelists say hello to her, using her name. When she comes back to the table, she tells me "All your friends know who I am!" And I apologize.
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Years later, both my daughters are still very much the best literary agents-- their teachers buy me books without me knowing and then tell me about it during parent-teacher night.

#comics
#boumeries
A 4-panel comic. I took my 6yo daughter with me to the Montreal Comic Arts Festival for the last day and she did not disappoint. She wanted to work! So she sat at my table. After a while she says "Mom no one's buying anything". So she grabs one of my books, opens it and pretends reading it, and comments very loudly: "WELL HAHA MY SISTER KICKED MY MOM IN THE FACE, silly Annette, HAHAHAHA SUCH A FUNNY BOOK". This was before she could read comfortably.
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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I’m thinking about getting Octopath Traveler 0, but the village building limitations throw me off a bit. The Switch version has a 250-building limit, half what the Steamdeck allows. Seems like a no brainer but

would I really build 500 houses???? How many hours of gameplay is that, a thousand???
November 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
boum.bsky.social
Years later, both my daughters are still very much the best literary agents-- their teachers buy me books without me knowing and then tell me about it during parent-teacher night.

#comics
#boumeries
A 4-panel comic. I took my 6yo daughter with me to the Montreal Comic Arts Festival for the last day and she did not disappoint. She wanted to work! So she sat at my table. After a while she says "Mom no one's buying anything". So she grabs one of my books, opens it and pretends reading it, and comments very loudly: "WELL HAHA MY SISTER KICKED MY MOM IN THE FACE, silly Annette, HAHAHAHA SUCH A FUNNY BOOK". This was before she could read comfortably.
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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davidharper.bsky.social
Comic strips never went away, but dang, they are having a heck of a 2025.

So, I wrote about what it's like to make comic strips today, the appeal of the form, social media's pros + cons, and more as I talked to cartoonists like @beetlemoses.bsky.social, @falseknees.bsky.social + @boum.bsky.social.
sktchd.bsky.social SKTCHD @sktchd.bsky.social · 5d
If 2025 in comics is anything for me, it's...the year of the comic strip????

It feels like the form is having a moment, and in this week's feature, I explore the appeal of comic strips to today's cartoonists, the realities of the work, the impact of social media, and more.
Comic Strips are So Back - SKTCHD
Let’s talk about comic strips, which never really went away but feel like they are having a moment.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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One of the gold caps flew off during the day and I never found it again. I still grieve about these boots :[

#comics
#boumeries
A 4-panel comic. One day at MCAF I wore my favourite boots: black boots with gold caps. I got married in these! As I walk around the festival, I get a lot of nice comments: Cool boots! So badass! I love your boots! Nice boots! Wow! Nice! But then in the evening, as I'm at a bar with friends, one of my friends points at my feet and asks "Hey, are your boots meant to be different?" As I look at my feet, one of my gold caps is gone and there's a gaping hole at the front of the boot. The last panel is a tombstone that reads "RIP Best boots of all time".
November 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
boum.bsky.social
One of the gold caps flew off during the day and I never found it again. I still grieve about these boots :[

#comics
#boumeries
A 4-panel comic. One day at MCAF I wore my favourite boots: black boots with gold caps. I got married in these! As I walk around the festival, I get a lot of nice comments: Cool boots! So badass! I love your boots! Nice boots! Wow! Nice! But then in the evening, as I'm at a bar with friends, one of my friends points at my feet and asks "Hey, are your boots meant to be different?" As I look at my feet, one of my gold caps is gone and there's a gaping hole at the front of the boot. The last panel is a tombstone that reads "RIP Best boots of all time".
November 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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????????

#comics
#boumeries
A 4-panel comic. I'm tabling at the Montreal Comic Arts Festival. A young woman walks by my table and looks at my wares. She touches one of my books on a stand, then immediately recoils and shouts "Oh my god wait. These are books??" The last panel only reads "COMICS FESTIVALS" and there's my confused face in the middle, and I say "WTF"
November 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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????????

#comics
#boumeries
A 4-panel comic. I'm tabling at the Montreal Comic Arts Festival. A young woman walks by my table and looks at my wares. She touches one of my books on a stand, then immediately recoils and shouts "Oh my god wait. These are books??" The last panel only reads "COMICS FESTIVALS" and there's my confused face in the middle, and I say "WTF"
November 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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elyxandra.bsky.social
I anticipated that it would be good, but this graphic novel is stunning!
Maybe the best thing I've read this year.
A hand holding a copy of the graphic novel The Jellyfish by Boum.
November 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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It was a trick so I couldn't see how dirty it was

#comics
#boumeries
A 4-panel comic. Still at the Montreal Comic Arts Festival, I'm headed for the restroom. As I step into the restroom, the light is off, and it won't turn on. I'm like "Ok, whatever" and lock the door and pee in the absolute dark, holding my phone light to my face.
November 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
boum.bsky.social
It was a trick so I couldn't see how dirty it was

#comics
#boumeries
A 4-panel comic. Still at the Montreal Comic Arts Festival, I'm headed for the restroom. As I step into the restroom, the light is off, and it won't turn on. I'm like "Ok, whatever" and lock the door and pee in the absolute dark, holding my phone light to my face.
November 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Interactions in comics festivals, amirite

#comics
#boumeries
A 4-panel comic. I'm at a comics festival. A guy walks by and says "Hey! I love your banner! It's really funny!" so I reply "Thanks! Wait until you read my comics!" So he asks "What's it about? A family going on adventures?". I say "Not really! It's all true events." He immediately replies "Oh, like the Simpsons!!" I hesitate but say "What no" then I hand him my card. "Grab my card and give it a try?" but he leaves saying "Nah, I just like your banner, bye"
November 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
boum.bsky.social
Interactions in comics festivals, amirite

#comics
#boumeries
A 4-panel comic. I'm at a comics festival. A guy walks by and says "Hey! I love your banner! It's really funny!" so I reply "Thanks! Wait until you read my comics!" So he asks "What's it about? A family going on adventures?". I say "Not really! It's all true events." He immediately replies "Oh, like the Simpsons!!" I hesitate but say "What no" then I hand him my card. "Grab my card and give it a try?" but he leaves saying "Nah, I just like your banner, bye"
November 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Funny that when I was with my own kids, I'd pass for their grandmother

#comics
#boumeries
A 4-panel comic. At the Montreal Comic Arts Festival, fellow cartoonist Laurence was tabling with her 3-month-old daughter. Laurence hands me her baby, saying "Can you watch her while I'm on a panel?" I gladly take the baby. Happy, I hold the baby while standing up behind my own table. People walk by and are surprised, they don't even say anything but I immediately say "Haha she's not mine!" But then this kept happening and everyone who walked by gasped and on the last panel I just keep saying: "Nope, not my third, Laurence's, not mine, no"
November 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Je serai au Salon du livre de Montréal cette semaine!
boum.bsky.social Boum @boum.bsky.social · 19d
I'll be at two events in Montreal in the coming weeks! First Expozine on the Sunday only, and then the Salon du livre de Montreal. I won't have my own wares, but you can still come and say hi if you're in the area!

Here's all the info (en français, sorry)!
A drawing of my face with screen tones. It says in French "salons d'automne", which means "fall fairs". My schedule for Expozine, 1025 Belanger E, in Montreal. Sunday November 16th, 12-13:30, at Pow Pow Press' table. My schedule for the Salon du livre de Montreal, which runs from November 19 to 23. I'll be there on the 19th, 21st and 22nd with various activities and signings.
November 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
boum.bsky.social
Funny that when I was with my own kids, I'd pass for their grandmother

#comics
#boumeries
A 4-panel comic. At the Montreal Comic Arts Festival, fellow cartoonist Laurence was tabling with her 3-month-old daughter. Laurence hands me her baby, saying "Can you watch her while I'm on a panel?" I gladly take the baby. Happy, I hold the baby while standing up behind my own table. People walk by and are surprised, they don't even say anything but I immediately say "Haha she's not mine!" But then this kept happening and everyone who walked by gasped and on the last panel I just keep saying: "Nope, not my third, Laurence's, not mine, no"
November 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
boum.bsky.social
I went to do a signing at a busy event where I signed exactly zero books and I basically worked less than two hours but I am exhausted: a case study
November 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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I’ll be at Expozine today in Montreal. Come and check it out!
boum.bsky.social Boum @boum.bsky.social · 19d
I'll be at two events in Montreal in the coming weeks! First Expozine on the Sunday only, and then the Salon du livre de Montreal. I won't have my own wares, but you can still come and say hi if you're in the area!

Here's all the info (en français, sorry)!
A drawing of my face with screen tones. It says in French "salons d'automne", which means "fall fairs". My schedule for Expozine, 1025 Belanger E, in Montreal. Sunday November 16th, 12-13:30, at Pow Pow Press' table. My schedule for the Salon du livre de Montreal, which runs from November 19 to 23. I'll be there on the 19th, 21st and 22nd with various activities and signings.
November 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Picky eater

#comics
#boumeries
A 4-panel comic. We're eating dinner as a family. Our 6yo daughter holds her empty plate and says "I liked this dish a lot, can I have more please?" We both look at her incredulously. My husband says "Are you okay?" and I ask "Do you wanna lie down?"
November 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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"In Transit", page 182, 63% of pencilling done, it's progressing well, I'm hanging on, aaaah! (To come sometime in 2027 in French, probably, but then in English soon after?)
A pencilled page from my upcoming graphic novel "In Transit". It's two panels of equal sizes. In the first one, we see Adeline, dumbfounded, staring at the camera while nervously destroying a little sugar packet. In the second panel, it's Simone staring back, sitting across from Adeline, sweaty and nervous.
November 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
boum.bsky.social
Picky eater

#comics
#boumeries
A 4-panel comic. We're eating dinner as a family. Our 6yo daughter holds her empty plate and says "I liked this dish a lot, can I have more please?" We both look at her incredulously. My husband says "Are you okay?" and I ask "Do you wanna lie down?"
November 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
boum.bsky.social
"In Transit", page 182, 63% of pencilling done, it's progressing well, I'm hanging on, aaaah! (To come sometime in 2027 in French, probably, but then in English soon after?)
A pencilled page from my upcoming graphic novel "In Transit". It's two panels of equal sizes. In the first one, we see Adeline, dumbfounded, staring at the camera while nervously destroying a little sugar packet. In the second panel, it's Simone staring back, sitting across from Adeline, sweaty and nervous.
November 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM