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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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I'm so thankful I don't ever wet the bed.

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A 4-panel comic. I'm peeing on the toilet. As I get up to pull my pants up, I think, "Oh no. I just peed and it feels like I have to pee again! I hope I don't have an urinary tract infection!!" But then I pause for a moment. "It's either that or... or I am actually dreaming." And I wake up, saying "HUH".
November 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Do all kids do this?

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A 2-panel comic. We're dropping off our 3yo daughter at daycare. She clings to my husband's arms and cries "I don't wanna go to daycaaaare". Then I pick her up from daycare in the afternoon, and she stays clinging to the door, crying "I don't wanna go hoooooome"
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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That was a rough year, which prompted me to pay out of pocket for an assessment. Kiddo was diagnosed with ADHD, which explained lots of things, & although most of elementary school was still hard on her (bullying & misunderstandings), she is now thriving in high school.

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A 4-panel comic. I'm meeting with my kindergartener's teacher, who says "Lots of tantrums, screams, cries, particular child, problems". Then I meet with an educator, who says "Never stops talking, needs to be separated, bothersome, needs to change". But then as I pick my daughter up from school, there's a lineup of kids who want to hug her and everyone says bye, and as we're leaving, older children wave from across the fence saying "Hey it's Margot! Margot! Margot can I be your friend??"
November 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Disclaimer: she didn't want me to stop making comics about her.

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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.

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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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One of the gold caps flew off during the day and I never found it again. I still grieve about these boots :[

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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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????????

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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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It was a trick so I couldn't see how dirty it was

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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

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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

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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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Picky eater

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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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Bonus storyboard
The same page, but crudely drawn.
November 13, 2025 at 7:18 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
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Regrets

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A 4-panel comic. We recently got a free Google Home. As we install it, m husband says "It's not that useful, but what harm can it do." The next panel shows the Google Home in the dark. My 6yo daughter walks up to it and says "Ok Google. Play 'Baby Shark'." As the song blasts through the house, we're still in bed and I look at my phone: 6:46am.
November 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Whoops, a spring comic in the dead of fall.

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A 4-panel comic. It's spring, and the temperature has risen to 17C/63F. My kids at the park are wearing just hoodies. The other kids at the park, though, are still wearing tuques, scarves, mittens and winter boots. I look at them and wonder if I'm the best or the worst mom ever.
November 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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The view from my office is okay
A photo of a snowy backyard and trees and a very golden sky
November 11, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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This happened several times over the weekend.

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A 4-panel comic. The first panel reads: the Toronto Comic Arts Festival was very interesting because I completely lost my voice. On panel 2, I'm tabling at the festival, and I wave hi to a customer while pointing to a sign I made that says "I lose my voice!". The customer says hi but then mimes what they want. I then hold a larger sign that says "I can't talk but YOU can" and the customer just says "...right"
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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This was years ago-- now even that Marriott isn't a Marriott anymore, and TCAF is at a new venue!

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An 8-panel comic. Normally, when I go to the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF), I stay at the Marriott Hotel because it's close and convenient (within walking distance). I say "I'm old and lazy!". But every year the room price goes up and this year I decided I'd stay elsewhere (on the panel, I look at my computer and just say "'Nope"). My hotel was shabbier than the Marriott, but it looked okay. I soon found out why it was so cheap: I'm in bed and the street is really noisy, I can hear cars, honking, and very loud music. The next panel, I'm standing up and rubbing my arms saying "I am FREEZING and there are no extra blankets." There's a patch in the wallpaper where a thermostat must've been. The hair dryer overheated and there was smoke coming out of it. There was free breakfast, but just bagels with no cream cheese, Cheerios, and nothing else. As I lay in my bed freezing and crying to the street noise, I say, "I miss you, Marriott."
November 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Raising a nerd kid

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A 4-panel comic. A dude on a motorcycle drives by and stops at a red light. He's wearing a helmet with the visor down. I walk by with my two daughters. My 6yo raises her arm and shouts at him: "GO GO POWER RANGERS!"
November 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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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 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Apologies to Arthur's mom who did not get a gift that day

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A 4-panel comic. My 6yo daughter hands me a heart-shaped note that says "I love you mommy". I smile and say "Aw, that's nice!" But then she says "Arthur made it and gave it to me." I look at her in surprise and say "Wait what? Who? But I'm not HIS mom." She replies "It's called sharing."
November 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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You know, we have lots of cat toys but he’d rather drag a whole ass backpack down the stairs
A badly lit photo of an orange Cornish Rex cat hauling a big black backpack down the stairs
November 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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We truly belong together

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A 4-panel comic. I see a balloon on the floor. I say "Balloon kick!!" as I attempt to kick it, but instead hit my foot on the table leg nearby. The next panel, my husband tries to kick the balloon too but hits his foot on the wall instead. The last panel just reads "SPORTS: we no good"
November 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Scratching your face with whatever you have handy

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A 4-panel comic. I'm picking up my 6yo daughter from school: "Hey kiddo! Did you have a good day at school?" But then I notice something weird: "Wait, what happened to your cheek? What's that??" I grab her face-- we still can't see anything wrong. My kid says "It was an accident!" I reply, "How can that be an accident". On the last panel, we finally see her right cheek and forehead are covered in yellow marker. She says, "I was drawing and my face got itchy"
November 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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I promise he's good at math

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A 4-panel comic. My husband is setting up the candles on our oldest daughter's birthday cake. There are four candles. He turns to me joyfully and says "I don't think I've ever been in charge of the candles before!" As he lights them up, I look at the cake and reply "It shows. She's six, not four." He goes back to grab the candle box with a disappointed look on his face.
November 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM