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Boum
@boum.bsky.social
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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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Translation apps weren't as good back in 2019. (I promise my Japanese is better now.)

Hey! Happy New Year!!!

#comics
#boumeries
A 4-panel comic. We're at a restaurant in Tokyo. My husband gets up and says he needs to go to the restroom. As he's about to push open the restroom door, a man puts a sign in front of the door, all written in Japanese. My husband can't read Japanese so he asks himself "What does it mean? Should I hold it in??"
January 1, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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Lastly, I wrote about a big year for comic strips, and what making comic strips is really like in 2025, with insight from @falseknees.bsky.social, @boum.bsky.social, @beetlemoses.bsky.social, @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social, and @theycantalk.bsky.social. This was a fun one!
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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December 31, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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It was very realistic

#comics
#boumeries
A 4-panel comic. My husband and I are having burgers in Tokyo (using utensils). My husband notices something out of frame. It's a woman, with her burger seemingly out of its box and directly on the table. He asks, "Why do you think she's putting her burger directly on the table??" Then she proceeds to unzipping her burger. It was her wallet.
December 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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It was very realistic

#comics
#boumeries
A 4-panel comic. My husband and I are having burgers in Tokyo (using utensils). My husband notices something out of frame. It's a woman, with her burger seemingly out of its box and directly on the table. He asks, "Why do you think she's putting her burger directly on the table??" Then she proceeds to unzipping her burger. It was her wallet.
December 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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One of my pet peeves is when people read 200-page comics and call them “a short comic” or “a quick read”. 200 PAGES IS NOT SHORT, don’t they know just how long comics take to make?!
December 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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This is from our trip in 2019, and somehow I didn't learn from it and it happened again when we went back this summer.

#comics
#boumeries
A 4-panel comic. I'm on a plane with my husband. There was a very long stretch where we couldn't get any food on the plane. I think, "I am STARVING. I should've brought snacks. I feel light-headed. I might pass out." My husband is sleeping. Finally, a stewardess hands me some kind of breakfast burrito and I say YES as I grab it. My husband sleepily opens his, but I struggle with the plastic wrap. Sweaty, panicking, I say "I can't, I can't open the plastic wrap, aaaAAAAAAA"
December 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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If you finish a 200 page comic in under an hour you didn’t spend long enough reading the pictures
boum.bsky.social Boum @boum.bsky.social · 1d
It’s much, much easier to write prose. Sure, if you compare books, comics will be thinner than most novels. And they’ll read quicker, too, probably. But the sheer amount of work that goes into them is unholy so please don’t go telling the artists “oh I read your book in 20 minutes”
December 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
boum.bsky.social
One of my pet peeves is when people read 200-page comics and call them “a short comic” or “a quick read”. 200 PAGES IS NOT SHORT, don’t they know just how long comics take to make?!
December 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
boum.bsky.social
This is from our trip in 2019, and somehow I didn't learn from it and it happened again when we went back this summer.

#comics
#boumeries
A 4-panel comic. I'm on a plane with my husband. There was a very long stretch where we couldn't get any food on the plane. I think, "I am STARVING. I should've brought snacks. I feel light-headed. I might pass out." My husband is sleeping. Finally, a stewardess hands me some kind of breakfast burrito and I say YES as I grab it. My husband sleepily opens his, but I struggle with the plastic wrap. Sweaty, panicking, I say "I can't, I can't open the plastic wrap, aaaAAAAAAA"
December 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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I lent my iPad and Apple Pencil to my kids several times so it was bound to happen

RIP Apple Pencil 2020-2025
December 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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A nightmare

#comics
#boumeries
A 4-panel comic. Airplane lavatories have always scared me because of the way they flush like toilet black holes. We see a toilet and a huge "FLUSH" onomatopoeia that seems to suck everything in. On the second panel, I'm using the airplane toilet on the plane to Japan, a 13-hour flight. I'm tired. As I lean backwards and sigh, there's a "tik'" sound, and I realize I've just activated the motion sensor flush.
December 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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❤️🪼
December 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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A nightmare

#comics
#boumeries
A 4-panel comic. Airplane lavatories have always scared me because of the way they flush like toilet black holes. We see a toilet and a huge "FLUSH" onomatopoeia that seems to suck everything in. On the second panel, I'm using the airplane toilet on the plane to Japan, a 13-hour flight. I'm tired. As I lean backwards and sigh, there's a "tik'" sound, and I realize I've just activated the motion sensor flush.
December 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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I'm not sure where all those new followers are flocking from, but hi folks!!
December 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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You know, I used to like Stranger Things
December 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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._______.

#comics
#boumeries
A 4-panel comic. It's a very slow day at the Montreal Comiccon. A woman stops by my table to look at my books. She says, "Oh, comics! We don't see a lot of those here." I reply "Luckily this is a COMIC con." She takes a moment to ponder, then says "......oh my god you're right". I just say "Yep".
December 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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._______.

#comics
#boumeries
A 4-panel comic. It's a very slow day at the Montreal Comiccon. A woman stops by my table to look at my books. She says, "Oh, comics! We don't see a lot of those here." I reply "Luckily this is a COMIC con." She takes a moment to ponder, then says "......oh my god you're right". I just say "Yep".
December 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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WELL, HE GOT ME. Merry Christmas!!

#comics
#boumeries
A 4-pane comic. My husband hands a present to me and wishes me a merry Christmas. I happily unwrap it, look inside in wonderment, then pull out the Kinder Critter, that small ugly Kinder Surprise toy our kid got months ago, that we kept hiding around the house for each other to find. My husband stands beside me, delighted.
December 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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WELL, HE GOT ME. Merry Christmas!!

#comics
#boumeries
A 4-pane comic. My husband hands a present to me and wishes me a merry Christmas. I happily unwrap it, look inside in wonderment, then pull out the Kinder Critter, that small ugly Kinder Surprise toy our kid got months ago, that we kept hiding around the house for each other to find. My husband stands beside me, delighted.
December 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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It took our oldest daughter a while before she understood how to keep the magic alive. But now they're both in the know and it's a huge weight off my shoulders.

#comics
#boumeries
A 4-panel comic. My 3yo daughter says "Santa Claus brought me lots of presents!" My 6yo, who recently learned THE TRUTH, walks in and says "Santa isn't real." They then argue-- YES HE IS, no he's not, YES, NO, YES. I step in, panicking, and hold a tiny sign like the ones Wile E. Coyote would hold, and it says "Send help"
December 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
boum.bsky.social
It took our oldest daughter a while before she understood how to keep the magic alive. But now they're both in the know and it's a huge weight off my shoulders.

#comics
#boumeries
A 4-panel comic. My 3yo daughter says "Santa Claus brought me lots of presents!" My 6yo, who recently learned THE TRUTH, walks in and says "Santa isn't real." They then argue-- YES HE IS, no he's not, YES, NO, YES. I step in, panicking, and hold a tiny sign like the ones Wile E. Coyote would hold, and it says "Send help"
December 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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It's not a cat Christmas if you haven't moved all the ornaments to the top of the tree

#comics
A 4-panel comic. There's a fully decorated Christmas tree, with a striped cat playing with ornaments at the bottom. On the next panel, the bottom of the tree doesn't have ornaments anymore, but the cat still can reach. The ornaments are progressively moved to the top of the tree until the cat looks at them, out of reach.
December 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Hi! I drew a comic called Utown, that features a bunch of friendly punks in a quickly gentrifying neighbourhoods. It's a heartfelt, gritty tale of unlikely friendships, belonging, and making it as an artist, somewhere in the mid 90's The comic is FINISHED, in French in English :)
utowncomic.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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FREEDOM

#comics
#boumeries
A 4-panel comic. The last week of November, my oldest daughter's 1st grade teacher gave us a stapled document with cute Christmas messages supposedly written by elves, reindeers, Santa, etc. The goal was to collectively, as parents, hide one message per day in our children's belongings until Christmas, pretending they were from Santa et al. But on December 1st, just after I'd hidden the first note, my kid came to me and said "I know Santa isn't real, and that you buy us presents." So the last panel is me having a glass of wine with a huge content smile, while the stapled document is in the recycling bin.
December 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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It's not a cat Christmas if you haven't moved all the ornaments to the top of the tree

#comics
A 4-panel comic. There's a fully decorated Christmas tree, with a striped cat playing with ornaments at the bottom. On the next panel, the bottom of the tree doesn't have ornaments anymore, but the cat still can reach. The ornaments are progressively moved to the top of the tree until the cat looks at them, out of reach.
December 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM