Career
He is most famous for his surreal comics revolving around the main character Jérôme Moucherot. Boucq published cartoons in magazines like Le Point or L"Expansion at an early age. Soon, he also created comic albums, becoming famous with Les pionniers de l"aventure humaine.
Many more have been published in the meantime, including Louisiana femme du magicien (1986) and Bouche du diable (1990) with American novelist Jerome Charyn.
Boucq created the successful series Face de Lune in cooperation with the artist Alexandro Jodorowsky. 1994 saw the publication of, the first album of a series of surreal comics that feature Jérôme Moucherot, a door-to-door insurance salesman with a fountain pen through his nose, who is dressed in a leopard fur suit.
His bizarre adventures take place in a world where Smurfs are jungle-dwelling headhunters and sharks swim around in the blue wallpapers of bourgeois living rooms. In recent years, Boucq has teamed up with Jodorowsky again, creating the graphic novel series Bouncer, set in a bleak Western scenario.
In keeping with the festival"s tradition, he was the president of the jury in the following year.
Award for Best Drawing at the Albert Uderzo.