The Gaeneviad

February 14, 2015 3:52 PM

French cartoonist Boulet creates a sweet tale for St. Valentine's day. Slightly NSFW.

Boulet Previously:
On Harry Potter
Kingdom's Lost
A Day at the Park

posted by jenkinsEar (21 comments total)

Very sweet.

...and here I was thinking you'd misspelled Grauniad.
posted by leotrotsky at 4:01 PM on February 14, 2015

Everybody hates Orion!
posted by The Whelk at 4:01 PM on February 14, 2015

Delightful. Thank you.
posted by MonkeyToes at 4:02 PM on February 14, 2015

Very sweet is right.

Though Orion's Belt was one of the few asterisms I could identify reliably, and I'm sure going to think about it differently the next time I see it.
posted by benito.strauss at 4:14 PM on February 14, 2015

Aw. Boulet is so great.
posted by cortex at 4:21 PM on February 14, 2015

I have him on my RSS feed. This is one of the best things he has done, which is saying something. He is a real talent...
posted by jim in austin at 4:27 PM on February 14, 2015 [1 favorite]

Uplifting, funny, and sad at the same time. Sweet Valentines day story without being too sappy. Good point about "heroes" at the end too.

Also, I wonder how many people would be able to tell the story behind Orion if prompted...I would venture not many. Another piece of trivia to look up, gonna go do that now.
posted by hypercomplexsimplicity at 5:13 PM on February 14, 2015

Heavy Lights of January is one of my favorites. With Boulet there are a lot of favorites though.
posted by tychotesla at 5:17 PM on February 14, 2015 [1 favorite]

Well, that was adorable. And the NSFW bit was not at all what I was expecting, given Zeus' reputation.
posted by emjaybee at 5:24 PM on February 14, 2015 [1 favorite]

Boulet has pretty much equaled Bill Watterson in my heart, which is no easy feat. What a gem!
posted by archagon at 5:47 PM on February 14, 2015 [2 favorites]

Not the least amazing thing about this is that it's a 24-hour comic, done at the Angoulême comics festival.
posted by zompist at 5:47 PM on February 14, 2015 [3 favorites]

I think we all just want our little moustache man.
posted by angerbot at 6:00 PM on February 14, 2015 [8 favorites]

Boulet is nuts. I refuse to believe that his 24-hour comics were actually done in 24 hours. Not because I deny his talent. Just because ... who can compete with that? How can someone be that good? It's really not fair.

But everyone should read his work because it's amazing. We all love Boulet. He's ridiculous in the best way. Everything I read of his, I just marvel and wonder how it's even possible.
posted by darksong at 7:14 PM on February 14, 2015 [2 favorites]

Poor Jean-Paul!
posted by barnacles at 8:11 PM on February 14, 2015 [4 favorites]

At the end of this one is a little video of his process. No sketches, pencil work, straight to ink then watercolor.

I Fucking Love Steampunk
posted by bumpkin at 8:12 PM on February 14, 2015 [1 favorite]

Sigh. Very nice gift for Valentine's Day. Thanks for posting it.
posted by aryma at 10:05 PM on February 14, 2015

Boulet wins at 24 hour comics. Every other cartoonist can just give up and quit.
posted by 1970s Antihero at 10:09 PM on February 14, 2015 [1 favorite]

Boulet is my favorite living European author. My favorite is actually the incredibly cynical "War of the Worlds", but this cartoon is really sweet.
posted by happyroach at 10:41 PM on February 14, 2015

That was wonderful! I almost skipped it because of the NSFW, but it is such a small detail that I wouldn't have noticed.
posted by hooray at 5:45 AM on February 15, 2015

The amusing thing about all this talk about Boulet's undoubtedly ungodly talent is that he's made reference a couple of times to another french cartoonist, Reno, and how much better Reno is than him at drawing. There's a lesson in there somewhere I think.
posted by Grimgrin at 7:01 AM on February 15, 2015 [2 favorites]

That was wonderful - thank you!
posted by jammy at 7:43 AM on February 15, 2015